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Cascade Range Volcanoes First Ascents and Discoveries

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• 1851 -- First Ascent of Lassen Peak, California
  Grover K. Godfrey and Capt. J.W. Maxwell.
  Information from the Lassen Volcanic National Park website, 2010.
  
  
  
• June 12, 1853 -- Discovery of Crater Lake, Oregon
  John W. Hillman, James L. Loudon, Patrick McManus, George Ross, Isaac Skeeters, and _____Dodd.
  Excerpts from M.W. Gorman's article "The Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake", published in 1897, and printed in Mazama: A Record of Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest.
  
  
  
• August 26, 1853 -- First Ascent of Mount St. Helens, Washington
  Thomas Jefferson Dryer, John Wilson, ?Drew, and ?Smith.
  Excerpts from newspaper clipping describing the first ascent of Mount St. Helens, written by Thomas J. Dryer.
  
  
  
• August 8, 1854 -- One claim as "First Ascent" of Mount Hood, Oregon
  Thomas Jefferson Dryer, Wells Lake, and an unidentified Indian guide.
  Excerpts from Littell's Living Age Magazine.
  
  
  
• August 14, 1854 -- First Ascent of Mount Shasta, California
  Captain E.D. Pearce and seven others.
  Excerpts from the San Francisco Daily Herald, as transcribed by the College of the Siskiyous, California.
  
  
  
• Late August or early September, 1854 -- First Ascent of Mount Adams, Washington
  A.G. Aiken, Edward J. Allen, and Andrew J. Burge
  Excerpt from George H. Himes, ca.1907 in "Steel Points", as re-told by Edmund S. Meany in The Mountaineer, December 1917.
  
  
  
• August 17, 1868 -- First Ascent of Mount Baker, Washington
  Edward T. Coleman, ?Tennent, and David Ogilvy.
  Excerpts from Edward T. Coleman's article published in 1869 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
  
  
  
• August 17, 1870 -- First Ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington
  Hazard Stevens and Philomon Beecher Van Trump.
  Excerpts from Hazard Steven's article published in 1876 in The Atlantic Monthly Magazine.
  
  
  
• August 12, 1888 -- First Ascent of Mount Jefferson, Oregon
  Ray L. Farmer and E.C. Cross.
  Excerpts from "The First Ascent of Mount Jefferson" which appeared in the "Mazama: A Record of Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest", March 1907.

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