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Notes 1 a tale of two cities 1. George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World 1791–1795, vol. 2, ed. W. Kaye Lamb (London: Hakluyt Society , 1984), 541–43, 551. 2.Leo Marx,The Machine in the Garden (New York:Oxford University Press, 1964), 89; Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery, 513. 3. Earl Pomeroy, In Search of the Golden West:The Tourist in Western America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), 18. 4.Gordon B.Dodds,The American Northwest: A History of Oregon andWashington (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Forum Press, 1986), 138. 5. Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Illustrated (Seattle: Baldwin, Calcutt ,and Blakely,1890),12;Washington,theEvergreenState,andSeattle,ItsMetropolis (Seattle:Crawford and Conover,1890),12;Seattle,Washington,U.S.A. (Seattle: Eshelman, Llewellyn, and Company, 1891), 12; J. W. Dodge, Washington: The Sound, State, and Its Chief City, Seattle (Seattle: Crawford and Conover, 1890); O. M. Moore, Washington Illustrated, Including Views of Puget Sound Country and Seattle, Gateway to the Orient with Glimpses of Alaska (Seattle:Metropolitan Press, 1901). 6. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: n.p., 1909), n.p. 7. Genevieve E. McCoy, “‘Call It Mount Tacoma’: A History of the Controversy over the Name of Mount Rainier,” M.A.thesis, University of Wash177 ington, 1984; Arthur D. Martinson, “Mount Rainier or Mount Tacoma? The Controversy That Refused to Die,” Columbia:The Magazine of Northwest History 3, no.2 (Summer 1989), 10–16; Murray Morgan, Puget’s Sound: A Narrative of EarlyTacoma and the Southern Sound (Seattle:University of Washington Press, 1979), 293–96. 8. William R. Catton Jr., “The Mountain with the Wrong Name,” Etc.: A Review of General Semantics 11, no.4 (Summer 1954): 299. Some Tacomans, for their part, claimed that Seattle residents were beholden to the name “Rainier” because they wanted to support the Rainier Brewing Company. 9. Martinson, “Mount Rainier or Mount Tacoma?” 16. 10. Dee Molenaar, The Challenge of Rainier (Seattle: Seattle Mountaineers, 1971); Aubrey L. Haines, Mountain Fever: Historic Conquests of Rainier (Portland : Oregon Historical Society, 1962). 11. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 25, 1894. 12. Erwin N.Thompson, Mount Rainier National Park,Washington, Historic Resource Study (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1981), 61. 13. Haines, Mountain Fever, 158–59. 14. Tacoma Daily Ledger, September 3, 1892. 15. Quoted in James Muhn, “Early Administration of the Forest Reserve Act:Interior Department and General Land O‹ce Policies,1891–1897,”Origins of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium, ed. Harold K. Steen (Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992), 260. 16. Cyrus A. Mosier, Special Agent, to Commissioner of General Land O‹ce, November 14, 1891, National Archives II (na ii), Record Group 49— Records of the General Land O‹ce (rg 49), Division “R,” National Forest Files, Giªord Pinchot National Forest, Box 53A. Emphasis in original. 17.Preamble and Resolutions Relative to Reservation of Public Lands in the State of Washington, enclosed with Assistant Secretary, Seattle Chamber of Commerce, to Cyrus A. Mosier, Special Agent, December 7, 1892, and Commercial Club of Tacoma to President Benjamin Harrison, January 26, 1893, na ii, rg 49, Division “R,” National Forest Files, Giªord Pinchot National Forest, Box 53A; Secretary of the Interior John Noble to President Benjamin Harrison, February 17, 1893, National Archives Microfilm Publication 620— Letters Sent by the Land & Railroad Division of the O‹ce of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849–1904, Roll 122, 236–37. 18. The name Pacific Forest Reserve was chosen to avoid the controversy 178 notes to chapter 1 SE (2024-04-26 12:54 GMT) over the name of Mount Rainier. “Forest reserve” was the o‹cial designation of national forests until 1905, when the administration of the forests was transferred from the General Land O‹ce to the usda Forest Service and these areas were redesignated “national forests.” 19. A fine, recent study of this distinctive cultural environment is Matthew W. Klingle’s “Urban by Nature: An Environmental History of Seattle, 1880– 1970,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2001. 2 the campaign to establish mount rainier national park 1.Bailey Willis was the son of poet Nathaniel Parker Willis.He was schooled in Germany and at Columbia University. See the essay by Aaron C. Waters in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 14, edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie (New York: Charles Scribners Sons), 402–3. It is likely that Willis first got the idea ten years earlier,in 1883,when...