riioto by A. H. Barnes 
COWSLIPS ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT RAINIER (SEE PAGE 607) 
THE GREAT WHITE MONARCH OF THE 
PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
By a. H. Barnes 
Author oe "Our Greatest Mountain and Alpine Wonders'' 
JVith Photographs by A. H. Barnes 
MOUNT RAINIER is wonder- 
fully associated with the far- 
famed Puget Sound. In com- 
pany with the lesser peaks of the Cas- 
cade Range and Olympic Mountains 
further to the west, it stands as the great 
white monarch of the Pacific North- 
west, the pride of Indian lore and myth. 
It overlooks the vast prairie empire of 
eastern Washington and westward the 
timbered region to the slice of the 
Washington coast, and in fav-^r.ble 
weather is seen from considerable dis- 
tance at sea. 
It was less than two years ago that :. 
prominent New York magazine pub- 
lished an article, wherein it was stated 
that the glaciers of Glacier National 
Park were the only living glaciers in the 
United States, when in fact the State of 
Washington contains six glacier-covered 
mountains, besides many detached sec- 
tions of perpetual ice and snow regions 
among the Olympic and Cascade ranges 
not indicated by general maps. Mount 
Rainier alone probably has more bulk of 
glacier than the whole State of Montana,, 
for it is estimated by our best geographic 
authority that Rainier radiates more vol- 
ume and .- rea of ice than any other one 
mountain in the world. The area of gla- 
cial rurface ir. estimated at 52,000 acres. 
Mount Rainier, ''our greatest moun- 
tain, " ;-, the high jt (?) and largest gla- 
ciei'-covered mountain in the United 
States. To the stranger in Puget Sound 
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