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2. Chapter 2I am Tacoma, Monarch of the Coast! Uncounted ages heaped my shining snows; The sun by day, by night the starry host, Crown me with splendor; every breeze that blows Wafts incens...
3. Chapter 3Panic-stricken at the results of his greed, Miser threw down his load of treasure to propitiate the angry tamahnawas. But the storm-god hurled him down the mountain side. Miser...
4. Chapter 4The road, as now open to Paradise valley, is a monument to the engineering skill of Mr. Eugene Ricksecker, United States Assistant Engineer, in local charge of the work. Over it...
5. Chapter 5A glacier's flow varies from a hundred to a thousand feet or more a year, depending upon {p.085} its volume, its width, and the slope of its bed. As the decades pass, its level...
6. Chapter 6In his vocabulary of the Winatsha (Wenatchee) language, Gibbs entered: "T'koma, snow peak." In that of the Niswalli (Nisqually), he noted: "Takob, the name of Mt. Rainier." "T'k...
7. Chapter 7In 1897 and 1905, the Mazama Club of Portland sent parties to the Mountain, each making the ascent over the Gibraltar route. The Sierra Club of California was also represented i...
8. Chapter 8For Emmons's account of his exploration in 1870, see _Bulletin Am. Geog. Soc._ v. 9, 44-61. _Am. Jour. of Science_, v. 101, 157-167, and _Nation_ v. 23, 313. Prof. Israel C. Rus...