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Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
175 p. : ill., maps ; 16 x 23 cm.
Description
As stated, "When the first group of pioneers explored the rugged Olympic mountain range during the harsh winter of 1889, they encountered both breathtaking beauty and cruel acts of nature. In subsesuent years, numeruous expeditions followed, and with the gripping tales of these trailblazers, collected here for the first time". This book includes never-before published historical photos and features detailed maps of explorers' routes.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xv, 447 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.
Description
As a seasonal ranger in Olympic National Park early in his career, Carsten Lien discovered the shocking truth. Flouting the law, and contrary to public expectation, the National Park Service was logging the very land it was supposed to preserve. Lien vowed to uncover the story behind the destruction. In Olympic Battleground, Lien documents more than one hundred years of political chicanery, citizen activism, bureaucratic failure, and the loss of primeval...
Author
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
xv, 470 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
This investigation of the modern human history of the central mountainous massif and fringe of Pacific coastline that now comprise Olympic National Park began in the summer of 1982. From June to October 1982 a team of three historians based in the Park identified nearly 250 pre-1943 buildings. These extant building represented tangible traces of the Park's human history.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Description
A native of Georgia, Herb Crisler was sent to the Olympic Peninsula by the United States Army in 1918. Captivated by the Peninsula, Herb decided to stay. By 1930 he had become a legend because of mountaineering and motion-picture achievements. His movies of the Olympic back country and its wildlife greatly influenced public support for the creation of Olympic National Park in 1938. He and his wife, Lois, spent two decades filming wilderness few people...
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