Today in History: Mount Rainier National Park
Today in History–March 2–the Library of Congress features Mount Rainier National Park, established on this day in 1899. But was America’s fifth national park created to preserve nature or to help out an industry? Learn more by visiting the Today in History section and reviewing the resources linked to below.
from America’s Library
Legislation
- U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 29, Proclamation No. 21, pp. 896-98 (creates Mount Rainier Forest Reserve)
- U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 30, Chap. 377, pp. 993-995 (creates Mount Ranier National Park)
- U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 34, Part 3, p. 3296 (enlarges Mount Rainier Forest Reserve and renames it the Rainier Forest Reserve)
- U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 39, Part 1, Chap. 197, pp. 243-46 (accepts the State of Washington’s cession of exclusive jurisdiction over lands within Mount Rainier National Park and includes extensive regulations designed to facilitate prosecution of hunters and other despoilers of the park’s resources and wildlife)
- Modern-day legislation
Books
- The Mount Rainier Forest Reserve by Fred Gordon Plummer (1900)
- Steep Trails by John Muir (1918)
More primary sources
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