num_pages: 544
description: In this first comprehensive account of the nineteenth-century exploration and survey of the northern Cascade Range Fred Beckey presents a wide range of materials from dozens of archives across the United States and beyond: voyagers' logs trappers' yarns agency and government documents official surveys tall tales climbers' journals and sober histories. The voices most of them from first-person narratives range from wonder at the magnificence of the terrain through frustration with the rigors of its harsh conditions to the often humorous and sometimes tragic anecdotes of daily life in what was still mostly unexplored wilderness.
language: English
title: A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range
publisher: Oregon Historical Society