Mount Rainier, a Record of Exploration

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PREFACE

I. THE MOUNTAIN DISCOVERED AND NAMED, 1792 By CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER, R.N.

II. FIRST APPROACH TO THE MOUNTAIN, 1833 By DOCTOR WILLIAM FRASER TOLMIE

III. FIRST RECORDED TRIP THROUGH NACHES PASS, 1841 By LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. JOHNSON, U.S.N.

IV. TACOMA AND THE INDIAN LEGEND OF HAMITCHOU By THEODORE WINTHROP

V. FIRST ATTEMPTED ASCENT, 1857 By LIEUTENANT A. V. KAUTZ, U.S.A.

VI. FIRST SUCCESSFUL ASCENT, 1870 By GENERAL HAZARD STEVENS

VII. INDIAN WARNING AGAINST DEMONS By SLUISKIN, INDIAN GUIDE

VIII. SECOND SUCCESSFUL ASCENT, 1870 By S. F. EMMONS

IX. EXPLORATIONS ON THE NORTHERN SLOPES, 1881-1883 By BAILEY WILLIS

X. DISCOVERY OF CAMP MUIR, 1888 By MAJOR E. S. INGRAHAM

XI. EXPLORING THE MOUNTAIN AND ITS GLACIERS, 1896 By PROFESSOR I. C. RUSSELL

XII. McCLURE'S ACHIEVEMENT AND TRAGIC DEATH, 1897 By HERBERT L. BRUCE and PROFESSOR H. H. McALISTER

XIII. FIELD NOTES ON MOUNT RAINIER, 1905 By PROFESSOR HENRY LANDES

XIV. GLACIERS OF MOUNT RAINIER By F. E. MATTHES

XV. THE ROCKS OF MOUNT RAINIER By GEORGE OTIS SMITH

XVI. THE FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER By PROFESSOR CHARLES V. PIPER

XVII. CREATION OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK MEMORIAL BY SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

XVIII. MOUNT RAINIER IS 14,408 FEET HIGH By THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

XIX. PLACE NAMES AND ELEVATIONS IN MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK

Title: Mount Rainier

A Record of Exploration

Author: Various

Editor: Edmond S. (Edmond Stephen) Meany

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Mount Rainier

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Mount Rainier
A Record of Exploration

Edited by

Edmond S. Meany

Professor of History in the University of Washington. President of The Mountaineers.
Author of "Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound," "History of the State of Washington," etc.

New York
The Macmillan Company
1916


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Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.


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To

GENERAL HAZARD STEVENS

early lover of the mountain, this book is affectionately dedicated


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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