A Sight So Nobly Grand: Joel Palmer on Mt. Hood in 1845
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In 1845, while leading a wagon train of emigrants over the Oregon Trail, Joe Palmer became the first person on record to climb high on Mount Hood. A Sight So Nobly Grand contains Palmer's remarkable journal account of that historic day, which led to the first summit ascent of Oregon's highest peak only twelve years later. The first climb on Mount Hood is only one event in an even greater drama recounted Palmer: the blazing of the route later known as Barlow Road through the Cascade Mountains. From his decision to join Sam Barlow in a pioneering journey around Mount Hood, through the tense juncture when storms threatened to doom the endeavor, to the triumphant arrival of the exhausted emigrants in Oregon City, Palmer recounts an extraordinary saga of struggle on the most formidable stretch of the Oregon Trail. A Sight So Nobly Grand offers a vivid portrait of Mount Hood's commanding presence in the pioneer experience of 1845. Palmer's plain and powerful prose brings to life a stirring event in Oregon history, evoking an earlier era in which the harshness of mountainous terrain was keenly felt.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0875952526
ISBN13:9780875952529
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:46 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
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