See F.M. Brown Inscription, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

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Just below Soap Creek rapid is Brown's Riffle and the Frank Brown inscriptionfrom the Stanton Expedition describing the death of F.M. Brown, at Colorado River mile 12 (River Left) in the Grand Canyon in Marble Canyon. The expedition leader and President of Denver, Colorado Canyon, and Pacific railroad, was Frank M Brown. "F.M. Brown, Pres. D.C.C. & P. R.R. Co. was drowned July 10, 1889, opposite this point." Frank Brown was the president of the Denver, Colorado Canon & Pacific Railroad. He was surveying a route through the Grand Canyon to reach mines under development in the area. The railroad was never built. At Twenty-Five Mile Rapid two more men, Peter Hansbrough and Henry Richards, also drowned. Forced to hike out of a side canyon called South Canyon at river mile twenty-nine, the group returned the next year to complete his expedition.

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