X. DISCOVERY OF CAMP MUIR, 1888 

 BY MAJOR E. S. INGRAHAM 



MAJOR EDWARD STURGIS INGRAHAM has visited the mountain 

 annually since 1888. He has ascended to the summit seven 

 times and has spent as many nights in the crater. It was he 

 who gave to a number of the prominent features of the Park 

 their beautiful and enduring names. 



On his first ascent in 1888 the party included John Muir, most 

 famous naturalist of the Pacific Slope. Since he found a 

 sheltered pumice patch and suggested camping there for the 

 night, Major Ingraham called it Camp Muir, now well known 

 to all climbers. 



Major Ingraham prepared an account of the ascent which was pub- 

 lished in The Puget Sound Magazine for October, 1888. That 

 magazine has long since ceased to be issued. It was edited 

 by the editor of this present work, who has rescued the article 

 from the rare and almost forgotten files. 



After an extensive career as superintendent of schools, printer, 

 militia officer and miner, Major Ingraham has been devoting 

 his later years to the boy scout work, in which his love for the 

 mountains plays an important part. 



A glacier on the mountain bears the name of Ingraham. How that 

 came to be, is related by him as follows : "One time when I was 

 on the mountain encamped at the Camp of the Clouds, Pro- 

 fessor I. C. Russell and another man, both in their shirt sleeves, 

 came tottering into my camp at early morning. They had 

 been caught upon the summit and had spent a shivering night 

 in the crater. I treated them the best I knew how and they 

 departed. When their maps came out I found that a beautiful 

 glacier had been named for me Ingraham Glacier." 



Mount Rainier, one of Nature's masterpieces, is the 

 most striking object of grandeur and beauty amidst 

 the unsurpassed scenery of Washington Territory. 

 Occupying nearly a central position geographically 

 in the Territory, it is alike an object of pride to the 

 inhabitants of the Great Plain of the Columbia and 



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