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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 of Eagle Rock in winter George V. Caesar 7
Winthrop Glacier and St. Elmo Pass Asahel Curtis 8
White Glacier and Little Tahoma Asahel Curtis 9
White River Canyon, from moraine of White Glacier Dr. F. A. Scott 12
Telephoto view from near Electron, showing plateau on the summit Asahel Curtis 13
View of the Mountain from Fox Island Charles Bedford 14
*?The most kingly of American mountains Romans Photographic Co. 16
Party of climbers on Winthrop Glacier Asahel Curtis 17
Ice