Wonderland: An Administrative History of Mount Rainier National Park, http://www.nps.gov/mora/adhi/adhi.htm 

The National Park Service website has recently posted this 723-page 1996 book by Theodore Catton. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book has chapters on:

• the cultural setting and history, involving both Native Americans and white settlers
• the founding years, 1893-1915
• the years of promise, 1915-30
• the Depression and war years, 1930-45
• contentious years, 1945-65
• and the years of consolidation, 1965-95.

If you would like to see the printed book, it is available in Special Collections, the Pacific Northwest collection, at F897.R2C38 1996. The two circulating copies at Odegaard and Suzzallo are currently checked out.

Other websites featuring our favorite mountain include:

• Mt. Rainier National Park, http://www.nps.gov/mora/, with information on planning a visit, recreation and activities, science and history, maps, and information for kids.
• Mount Rainier National Park, http://www.mount.rainier.national-park.com/, with information on the visitors' centers, flora and fauna, the volcano, the glaciers, hiking, and loding. 
• Mount Rainier National Park: 100 Years in Paradise, http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/rainier/, features materials from the UW Libraries' Special Collections, Manuscripts, and University Archives Division.
• Mount Rainier National Park, http://www.halcyon.com/rdpayne/mrnp.html, the "unofficial guide, with reports on flora and fauna.