Mt. Adams

Title: Mt. Adams
LC Subject: Mountains--Washington (State)
Description: The Indian name was Kulchan, "Great White Watcher." Many people regret the commonplace names given to our mountains and desire a restoration of the original Indian names. Washington Irving laments "The stupid; commonplace and often ribald names entailed upon rivers and other features of the Great West by traders and settlers. Indeed, it is to be wished that the whole of our country could be rescued from the wretched nomenclature inflicted upon it by ignorant and vulgar minds; and this might be done, in a great degree, by restoring the Indian names, in general more sonorous and musical. Many Indian myths are woven around Mt. Adams, one of them being of the "thunder bird", living in a cave on the east side of the mountain a bird of monstrous size, who would issue from his hiding place and clap his wings if any thing of profane nature approached the peak. The clapping of the bird's wings was thunder; the sparkling of its eyes was the lightning.
Work Type: lantern slides
Location: Mount Adams >> Yakima County >> Washington >> United States
Identifier: P217:27:12
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