The Guardians of the Columbia / Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens

by John H. Williams

INDEX

Figures in light face type refer to the text, those in heavier type to illustrations.

Adams, Mt., Indian legend of its origin, [43];
routes to, [66], [67];
structure and glaciers, [89-104];
lava flows, [93-97];
tree casts, [94];
caves, [94-96];
routes to summit, [96-100];
name, [103];
height, [104];
first ascent, [104];
views of, [8], [15], [17], [31], [63], [86-107]
Adams glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [103], [104], [106]
Alps, character and scenery, [60]
Archer Mountain, [29]
Arrowhead Mountain, [29], [31]
Astoria, [51], [16], [21]
Automobile roads, [140]
Avalanche glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [107]
Barlow, William, ascent of Mt. Hood, [72], [79], [142]
Barlow road, [70], [142], [78]
Barrett Spur, [86], [57], [69], [75]
Bibliography, [141]
Blue Mountains, [18], [24]
"Bridge of the Gods," Indian legend, [36-43]; [21], [35]
Bryce, James, on Northwestern mountains, [60]
Cabbage Rock, [47]
Cape Horn, [19]
Carbon glacier, [102]
Cascade locks, [39]
Cascade Mountains, [18], [24], [25], [28], [30], [58-66]
Castle Rock (Columbia River), [28], [29], [31]
Castle Rock, Wash., [106]
Cedars, group of red, [128]
Celilo Falls (Tumwater), [52], [54]
Chelatchie Prairie, [114]
Chinook wind, Indian legend of its origin, [46-48]
Climate, [142]
Cloud Cap Inn, [15], [67], [78], [57], [58], [60], [66]
Coast Range, [58]
Coe glacier, Mt. Hood, [78], [80], [83-86], [69], [72], [75]
Columbia River, John Muir's description, [15];
dawn on, [15-23];
its gorge, [30];
Indian legends of its origin, [36-43];
its discovery by Capt. Gray, [51];
struggle for its ownership, [50-52];
its settlement, [52];
views of, [7], [9], [14-52], [56], [109]
Columbia Slough, [18], [21]
"Coming of the White Man," statue, [23]
Cooper Spur, Mt. Hood, [79], [80], [87], [57-60]
Crater Rock, [81], [87], [77], [80]
Dalles, The, [18], [39], [96], [107], [46], [47], [49]
Douglas, David, [131]
Douglas firs, [131], [132], [122], [130], [132], [133]
Dryer, T. J., [72], [115]
Eliot glacier, Mt. Hood, [15], [67], [78], [83-86], [17], [58-67], [73], [92]
Forest, on lava beds, [94], [107-112], [111]
"Forests, The," chapter by Harold Douglas Langille, [123-139], [122-139]
Forsyth, C. E., leader in rescue on Mt. St. Helens, [121]
Glacieres, freezing caves, [95], [96], [87]
Glenwood, Wash., [68], [96]
Goldendale, Wash., [68]
Government Camp, [68], [70], [140], [142], [78], [81]
"Grant Castle," on the Columbia, [46]
Gray, Capt. Robert, [51]
Guler, Wash., [68], [96], [89], [90]
Hellroaring Canyon, [103], [95], [96], [97]
Hood, Mt., dawn on, [15];
Indian legend of its origin, [43];
John Muir on, [57];
routes to, [66-70];
first ascent, [72], [75];
height, [75], [76];
the Mazamas organized on summit, [75];
structure and glaciers, [75-89];
summit, [80], [6], [55], [70];
crater, [81], [82], [77];
lava bed, [89];
views of, [6], [14], [17], [21], [57-85], [123], [124], [138]
Hood River, [43], [85]
Hood River (city), Ore., [67], [140], [43], [109]
Hood River Valley, [18], [63], [66], [67], [44]
Hudson's Bay Company, [51]
Ice caves, [95], [96], [87]
Illumination Rock, [81], [77], [79]
Indians, legend of the creation, [32];
"Bridge of the Gods," 36-43;
origin of the Chinook wind, [46-48];
value of their place names, [104];
Leschi, first Indian to scale a snow-peak, [115]; [21], [23], [26], [30], [44], [50], [52]
Japan current, [46]
Jefferson, Mt., [104], [83]
Kelley, Hall J., [103]
Klickitat glacier, Mt. Adams, [97-103]; [94], [97-100]
Klickitat River, [68], [144]
Ladd glacier, Mt. Hood, [78], [80], [83-86], [69], [75]
Langille, Harold Douglas, "The Forests," 123-139
Langille, William A., [80]
Lava beds, tree casts, caves, etc., near Mt. Adams, [89-96], [86], [87];
near Mt. St. Helens, [107-112], [111], [112];
struggle of the forest to cover, [108-112], [111]
Lava glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [101-104]
Lewis and Clark, exploration, [51]
Lewis River, [106], [107], [108]
Lily, the Mt. Hood, [81]
Lone Rock, [19], [29]
Loowit, the witch woman, [41-43]
Lyle, Wash, [68], [9], [45]
Lyman glaciers, Mt. Adams, [100], [101]
Lyman, Prof. W. D., [51], [82], [103]
Mazama glacier, Mt. Adams, [97], [100], [94], [96]
Mazama Rock, Mt. Hood, [70]
Mazamas, mountain club, organization, [75];
ascents of Mt. St. Helens, [116];
an heroic rescue, [120], [121];
presidents, [142];
ascents, [142]; [80], [82], [93], [117], [124]
Memaloose Island, [42]
Mountains, importance in scenery, [59]
"Mountain that was 'God,'" [105]
Mountaineers, The, [142], [103]
Multnomah Falls, [26], [27], [28]
Newton Clark glacier, Mt. Hood, [79], [87], [83], [84]
Noble fir, [129], [130], [125], [130], [136]
North Yakima, Wash., [68]
Oneonta gorge, [30], [32]
Oregon, its geological story, [23-32];
its settlement, [50-54]
Peterson's, near Mt. St. Helens, [106], [107]
Plummer, Fred G., [115]
Pinnacle glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [106], [107]
Portland, Ore., [57], [140], [7], [22], [61], [113]
Portland Automobile Club, [70], [140]
Portland Ski Club, [142], [81]
Portland Snow-shoe Club, [142], [57], [62], [66]
"Presidents' Range," 104
Puget Sound, [27]
Rainier, Mt. or Mt. Tacoma, and Rainier National Park, [83], [102], [51], [105], [113], [117]
Red Butte, Mt. Adams, [86]
Reforestation, [139]
Reid, Prof. Harry Fielding, [87], [103], [79]
Rhododendrons, [134], [127]
Ridge of Wonders, Mt. Adams, [103], [96], [98], [99]
Riley, Frank B., [120], [121]
Rocky Mountains, [23]
Rooster Rock, [25]
Rusk, C. E., [103]
Rusk glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [102], [98], [101]
Ruskin, John, quoted, [59], [60], [123]
"Sacajawea," statue, [23]
Sacramento Valley, origin, [26]
Salmon fishing, [16], [25], [33], [36], [48]
Sandy glaciers and canyon, Mt. Hood, [86], [87], [71], [76]
Sandy, Ore., [51]
San Joaquin Valley, origin, [21]
Shaw, Col. B. F., [104]
Siskiyou Mountains, [24]
South Butte, Mt. Adams, [96], [89]
Speelyei, the coyote god, [32], [47]
Spirit Lake, [106], [4]
Squaw grass, [134], [135]
Steel's Cliff, [81], [91]
St. Helens, Mt., Indian legend of its origin, [43];
compared with Mt. Adams, [90], [94];
discovery and name, [104];
structure, [104-6];
height, [106];
routes to, [106];
recent eruptions, [106], [107];
lava beds, [107-112];
glaciers, [112-115];
routes to summit, [112-116];
volcanic phenomena, [115];
first ascent, [115];
the Mazamas on, [116], [120], [121];
an heroic rescue, [120], [121];
views of, [4], [8], [15], [17], [108-121]
St. Peter's Dome, [20], [31]
Sylvester, A. H., [86], [87]
Table Mountain, [31], [35], [36]
Toutle River canyons, Mt. St. Helens, [115], [116]
Tree casts, [94], [107], [111]
Trout Lake, [15], [62], [66], [76], [89], [110]
Umatilla, Ore., [62]
Umatilla Indian village, [50]
Vancouver, Capt. George, [72], [104]
Vancouver, Wash., [106], [15], [24]
Volcanoes, [27], [28]
White River glacier, Mt. Hood, [81], [75], [77], [82]
White Salmon, Wash., [67], [140], [42], [44]
White Salmon glacier, Mt. Adams, [100], [107]
White Salmon River, [41]
White Salmon Valley, [56], [89]
Willamette River, [21], [57], [9], [113]
Wind Mountain, [39], [40]
Woodland, Wash., [106], [140]
Yacolt, Wash., [106], [140]
Yakima Indians, [48], [21]
Y. M. C. A., party on Mt. Hood, [76];
on Mt. Adams, [86]
Yocum, O. C., [70]
Zigzag glacier, Mt. Hood, [81], [87], [77], [79]
Zigzag River and Canyon, [86], [87], [48], [78]

Klickitat River Canyon, near Mount Adams.

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Transcriber's Note:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Page 10, "Moorhouse" changed to "Moorehouse" (Lee Moorehouse 26)

Page 51, "monoply" changed to "monopoly" (a foreign monopoly that)

Page 54, "descendents" changed to "descendants" (pride of their descendants)

Page 60, illustration with caption beginning "Cone of Mount Hood", "scoriae" changed to "scoriæ" (ridge of volcanic scoriæ)

Page 78, "pretentions" changed to "pretensions" (with very modest pretensions)

Page 81, "scoriae" changed to "scoriæ" (rocks and the scoriæ which)

Page 83, "tripple" changed to "triple" (and even triple border)

Page 97, double word "to" removed from test. Original read (stairway tilted to to forty)

Page 141, italics added to "U. S. Geog. Mag." and "Science" to follow rest of usage (in U. S. Geog. Mag., v. 8, pp. 226, and by J. S. Diller in Science)

Page 142, Erratum, "Captin" changed to "Captain" (to Captain Samuel K. Barlow)

Page 143, Indians, Leschi, only the first illustration is of Leschi, the rest of the bolded page numbers are of other people.

Page 143, Zigzag River and Canyon, bold text added to "48" as it is an illustration (Canyon, 86, 87, [48], [78])