{"value"=>"<p>Dellenbaugh's writing, often very adventuresome and romantic in tone, predominantly focuses on the American West, Native Americans, the second Powell Expedition, and explorers and exploration in general. The writings consist of short essays, his diary kept during the 1871-1872 expedition, manuscripts of both published and unpublished works, and the notes and drafts used to support these works.</p> <p>His diary of the second Powell Expedition, covering April 1871 through April 1873, is identified as having been written in pencil and later traced over with ink. Various additions, however, were clearly placed in the volume at a later date. Among these are newspaper clippings of Dellenbaugh's letters on the expedition sent to the <span class=\"title\">Buffalo Express</span>; his own occasional editorial and explanatory comments tipped into or written into a blank space in the volume (these latter are dated ); a 1924 reproduction of a Zuni village photograph; an 1888 letter of reference from John Wesley Powell to Dellenbaugh confirming Dellenbaugh's participation in the second expedition; and an extract from fellow-participant A.H. Thompson's diary.</p> <p>Also included in the diary are several of his own sketches, and seven photographs taken by E.O Beaman and C.W. Savage on the expedition, featuring geological formations, a Hopi village, Brigham Young's residences in Salt Lake City, and the expedition party itself, in their boats just prior to departure. The diary ends with a list of the expedition members, delineated into their boat crews; a list of the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers; and a table of these canyons and their various physical attributes (descent in feet, highest walls, direction, number of rapids, etc.).</p> <p>The diary covers the expedition in daily entries. Dellenbaugh described the physical rigors of the expedition, including sleeping exposed to the elements, negotiating snowdrifts when on land, running dangerous rapids and portaging their boats around the impassable ones, and their hunger as supplies ran low. He noted various setbacks along the way, such as wolves stealing their jerky supplies, his companions' tendency towards falling into the river, and the inevitability of broken equipment and abandoned boats. Dellenbaugh also wrote about the lighter aspects of the journey, from pillow fights amongst the men, to the popularity of \"Gunther's candy,\" which was such a hit that, at one point, the men threatened to halt unless they could have it after every meal. He wrote about the natural beauty they encountered, geological formations they witnessed and named, and evidence of and encounters with Native Americans along their voyage.</p> <p>The bound manuscript for <span class=\"title\">Colorado River Expedition, 1871-1872</span>, handwritten and with numerous editorial corrections, was composed using Dellenbaugh's own diary as reference. In addition, he noted in 1922 that the diaries of Almon H. Thompson and John F. Steward were useful to him in producing this volume. These diaries can also be consulted in the Manuscripts and Archives Division.</p> <p>Also among the Colorado River expedition-related materials in Dellenbaugh's papers is a bound volume of proofs for the 1926 second edition of his book <span class=\"title\">A Canyon Voyage</span>. It includes a number of handwritten and pasted-in editorial changes and additions. The most substantial of Dellenbaugh's fictional writings present in the collection is the story <span class=\"title\">Helen of Hoboken</span>, of which a synopsis and several manuscript drafts are available. The unpublished novella is a pro-Prohibition adventure and love story, full of intrigue, involving a prison escape, an airplane crash onto a Navajo reservation, bootlegging by yacht, and a kidnapping.</p> <p>The <span class=\"title\">My Story of Cragsmoor</span> materials, were collected by Dellenbaugh for a history of his favorite vacation town in New York. Included are drafts; notes; an incomplete run of the <span class=\"title\">Cragsmoor Journal</span> from July 1 through September 15, 1914; playbills and related matter from the Cragsmoor Barnstormers Theatre, in whose productions both Dellenbaugh and his wife performed; and newspaper clippings. The photographs from this section have been moved to series IV. Personal Miscellany and arranged with the photographs therein.</p> <p>Dellenbaugh's notes and research for his writings consist of handwritten and typed notes and printed matter he collected on explorers, the Colorado River and American West, and Native Americans. The photographs of Hopi dancers previously included with these materials have been moved to series IV. Personal miscellany and arranged with other photographs and negatives.</p>"}