Another view of St. Helens from Spirit Lake
- Title
- Another view of St. Helens from Spirit Lake
- LC Subject
- Mountains--Washington (State)
- Description
- Being farther north than Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens retains somewhat more of its snowy whiteness in summer; but there is a place near the summit which is always kept bare of its internal volcanic heat. The slopes by St. Helens are steeper than those of Hood, and its conical shape is beautifully symmetrical and smoothly rounded as compared with the more rugged Hood, which gives it a feminine appearance. The Indians have a legend that when St. Helens, Hood and Adams were created, they were big women who had one husband in common. The result was jealousy, and a fight in which St. Helens whipped Hood and the other mountains, and made slaves of them. In this legend the Indians did not, I think, show their usual poetic imagination. The lovely rounded, and regular appearance of St. Helens should have suggested a legend in which this mountain was made the wife of the more irregular, muscular, and sinewy Hood.
- Work Type
- lantern slides
- Location
- Mount Saint Helens >> Skamania County >> Washington >> United States
- Identifier
- P217:27:06
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Set 40 - Mountains of the West
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Hand-tinted
