Includes bibliographical references and index (pages116-117).
Contents
Looking for adventure -- Death-defying deed -- Marvelous major -- Fateful meeting -- Getting ready -- Downriver -- Poems and perils -- Facing starvation -- Kanab and the unknown country -- Lonely dell -- "Sockdolager of the world" -- Final missions -- Epilogue: Farewell to the wild Colorado.
Summary
Recounts the adventures of seventeen-year-old Fred Dellenbaugh, the youngest member of the second Powell expedition, which explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1871-2.