Mining Glacier Basin : history of the Glacier Basin Mining District, Mount Rainier National Park / by Greg C. Burtchard, Jacqueline Y. Cheung, Robert McIntyre, Jr. ; foreword by Arthur L. Storbo.
Publication Info.
Ashford, WA : National Park Service, Mount Rainier National Park, 2017.
xiv,183 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166).
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Glacier Basin and its mining history -- chapter 2. Prospecting in the Pacific Northwest and on Mount Rainier -- chapter 3. Mining comes to Glacier Basin : the early days - 1902 to 1921 -- chapter 4. Mount Rainier Mining Company : the declining years -- 1922 to 1945 -- chapter 5. The new (and last) Mount Rainier Mining Company -- 1946 to 1984.
Summary
"This book focuses specifically on the history of mining operations in Glacier Basin; the ups and down[s] of the Mount Rainier Mining Company, the related development of Storbo-White River Road through the White River valley and up to Glacier Basin, and the role of the National Park Service in administering and overseeing these operations"--Page 4.
