Research Catalog

Title

Men, mules, and mountains : Lieutenant O'Neil's Olympic expeditions / by Robert L. Wood.

Author

Wood, Robert L.

Publication

Seattle : The Mountaineers, 1976.

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Details

Description

xx, 483 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Accounts of an 1885 expedition led by Lt. Joseph P. O'Neil to make a reconnaissance of the northeastern section of the Olympics and an 1890 expedition that explored the region more in depth. Based mainly on O'Neil's manuscripts and and a hand-written account by Private Harry Fisher.

Alternative Title

Lieutenant O'Neil's Olympic expeditions

Subject

• O'Neil, Joseph Patrick, 1862-1938
• 1800-1899
• Mountaineering > Washington (State) > Olympic Mountains
• Olympic Mountains (Wash.)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 463-483.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Part I; Northern Reconnaissance -- the olympic mountains: 1885 -- across the foothills -- scouting the miles range -- through the game country -- exploring beyond noplace -- Part II: Return to Terra Incognita -- the olympic mountains, 1890 -- the alpine club expedition -- on the lilliwaup trail -- the lake of "devil cush" -- first barrier: fisher's bluff -- Part III: Scouting and Trail Work -- an alpine holiday -- the way to deer mountain -- the ridge of the three sisters -- second barrier: jumbo's leap -- the south fork journey -- Part IV: Tramping the High Country -- adventure on bruin's peak -- the great elk hunt -- elk basin and bear jungle -- along the grand divide -- first powwow: upper skokomish -- Part V: Beyond The First Divide -- duckabush and dosewallips -- down the enchanted valley -- the lake on the river -- two churches south -- whiskahl and wynootche -- Part VI: Humptulips To O'Neil Pass -- exploring the humptulips -- grays harbor to hood canal -- rendezvous at cache camp -- the mount anderson "picnic" -- second powwow: grand divide -- Part VII: Olympus and Points West -- the march to olympus -- olympus and the copper box -- with the pack train -- alone down the queets -- a guest of the indians -- Part VIII: An Epilogue to Adventure -- the return from olympus -- west of the quinault -- grays harbor revisited -- why not a national park? -- O'neil's place in history

ISBN

0916890430

LCCN

^^^76015458^

OCLC

• 3206317
• SCSB-12108436

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library