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 - The NPS History Program provides online electronic editions of studies covering a wide array of new, rare, and hard-to-find materials about our parks, including Mount Rainier, as well as the National Park Service.
• 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.