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of its readers to
delightful days of recreation and adventure.
Tacoma, June 1, 1910. J. H. W.
Second Edition.--The text has been carefully revised, much new matter
added, and the information for tourists brought to date. The illustrations
have been rearranged, and more {p.008} than fifty new ones included.
Views of the west and south sides, mainly, occupy the first half of the
book, while the later pages carry the reader east and north from the
Nisqually country.
Nearly five thousand negatives and photographs have now been
examined in selecting copy for the engravers. In the table of
illustrations I am glad to place the names of several expert
photographers in Portland, San Francisco, Pasadena and Boston. Their
pictures, with other new ones obtained from photographers already
represented, make this edition much more complete. For the
convenience of tourists, as well as of persons unable to visit the
Mountain but wishing to know its features, I have numbered the
landmarks on three of the larger views, giving a key in the underlines.
If this somewhat mars the beauty of these pictures, it gives them added

value as maps of the areas shown. In renewing my acknowledgments to
the photographers, I must mention especially Mr. Asahel Curtis of
Seattle. The help and counsel of this intrepid and public-spirited
mountaineer have been invaluable. Mr. A. H. Barnes, our Tacoma artist
with camera and brush, whose fine pictures fill many of the following
pages, is about to publish a book of his mountain views, for which I
bespeak liberal patronage.
My readers will join me in welcoming the beautiful verses written for
this edition by a gracious and brilliant woman whose poems have
delighted two generations of her countrymen.
Thanks are also due to Senator Wesley L. Jones, Superintendent E. S.
Hall of the Rainier National Park and the Secretary of the Interior for
official information; to Director George Otis Smith of the U. S.
Geological Survey for such elevations as have thus far been established
by the new survey of the Park; to A. C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, for
permission to quote from Miss Judson's "Myths and Legends of the
Pacific Northwest"; to Mr. Wallace Rice, literary executor of the late
Francis Brooks, for leave to use Mr. Brooks's fine poem on the
Mountain; to the librarians at the Public Library, the John Crerar
Library and the Newberry Library in Chicago, and to many others who
have aided me in obtaining photographs or data for this edition.
Lovers of the mountains, in all parts of our country, will learn with
regret that Congress, remains apparently indifferent to the conservation
of the Rainier National Park and its complete opening to the public. At
the last session, a small appropriation was asked for much-needed trails
through the forests and to the high interglacial plateaus, now
inaccessible save to the toughest mountaineer; it being the plan of the
government engineers to build such trails on grades that would permit
their ultimate widening into permanent roads. Even this was denied.
The Idaho catastrophe last year again proved the necessity of trails to
the protection of great forests. With the loggers pushing their
operations closer to the Park, its danger calls for prompt action. Further,
American tourists, it is said, annually spend $200,000,000 abroad,
largely to view scenery surpassed in their own country. But Congress

refuses the $50,000 asked, even refuses $25,000, toward making the
grandest of our National Parks safe from forest fires and accessible to
students and lovers of nature!
May 3, 1911.
[Illustration: Winthrop Glacier and St. Elmo Pass, with Ruth Mountain
(the Wedge) on right and Sour-Dough Mountains on left.]
[Illustration: White Glacier and Little Tahoma, with eastern end of the
Tatoosh Range in distance.]

{p.009} CONTENTS.
Page.
The Mountain Speaks. Poem Edna Dean Proctor 15
I. Mount "Big Snow" and Indian Tradition 17
II. The National Park, its Roads and its Needs 43
III. The Story of the Mountain 77
IV. The Climbers 113
V. The Flora of the Mountain Slopes Prof. J. B. Flett 129
Notes 139

ILLUSTRATIONS.
The * indicates engravings made from copyrighted photographs. See
notice under the illustration.
THREE-COLOR HALFTONES.

Title. Photographer. Page.
Spanaway Lake, with reflection of the Mountain A. H. Barnes.
Frontispiece
View from Electron, showing west side of the Mountain Asahel Curtis
19
View northward from top of Pinnacle Peak Dr. F. A. Scott 46
Looking Northeast from slope of Pinnacle Peak Dr. F. A. Scott 47
* Ice Cave, Paradise Glacier A. H. Barnes 73
* Spray Park, from Fay Peak W. P. Romans 92
Crevasse in Carbon Glacier Asahel Curtis 109
North Mowich Glacier and the Mountain in a storm George V. Caesar
128
ONE-COLOR HALFTONES.
* Great crevasses in upper part of Cowlitz Glacier Kiser Photo Co. 6
On the summit