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Article: Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890.
- Article from:
- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Exploring the Olympic Mountains:
Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890
Compiled by Carsten Lien
Mountaineers Books, Seattle, 2001. Illustrations, photographs,
maps, notes, bibliography, index. 484 pages. $35.00
paper.
Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890 provides a firsthand, unabridged compilation of writings about the earliest adventures to explore and cross the essentially unknown northwest corner of the contiguous United States. The Olympic Mountains were the first in the Pacific Northwest to be sighted by European navigators but the last to be explored. The practice of the early far-ranging mariners ...