Resources & Articles

History Resources & Publications

• WONDERLAND: An Administrative History of Mount Rainier National Park by Theodore Catton, May 1996.
• Nature Notes - Publications on a variety of topics produced by park naturalists between 1924-1939 and 1984-1989. Includes original text and images for over 100 editions.
• NPS History E-Library: Mount Rainier Collection - An online history collection covering a wide array of new, rare, and hard-to-find materials about Mount Rainier National Park.
• NPS Cultural Landscapes - A cultural landscape is a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources, associated with an historic event, activity, or person; or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values. The site provides feature stories on cultural landscapes in NPS units, including Mount Rainier National Park.
• Highways in Harmony - A history of Mount Rainier's roads, bridges, and transportation system.
• The Development of Mount Rainier's Wonderland Trail, 1907-1939 by Paul Sadin, Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, Winter 1999-2000, Vol. 13, No. 4.
• Mining Glacier Basin - History of the Glacier Basin Mining District, Mount Rainier National Park by Greg C. Burtchard, Jacqueline Y. Cheung, & Robert McIntyre, Jr., 2017.
• Plants, Tribal Traditions, and the Mountain Practices and Effects of Nisqually Tribal Plant Gathering at Mount Rainier National Park by Greg Burtchard, David Hooper, and Arnie Peterson, 2024.

 

 

Archaeology

Archaeologists at Mount Rainier study human use on the mountain spanning at least 9,000 years!

Associated Tribes of Mount Rainier

The land within Mount Rainier National Park has historical, cultural, and spiritual meanings to many Native Americans.

Mount Rainier History

Discover the storied human history of the mountain!