The Oregon Skyline Trail A History | 7.81 MB
Title: The Oregon Skyline Trail A History
Author: Glenn Voelz
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, State & Local, 20th Century
Language: English | 192 Pages | ISBN: 9781540262615
Description:
The foundation of America's greatest long-distance hiking trail. The Skyline Trail began as a network of footpaths created by Oregon's indigenous tribes. Early fur traders and explorers followed in their steps, seeking safe routes over the unmapped Cascades. Judge John Breckenridge Waldo later spent decades exploring the mountain trail between Mount Hood and Crater Lake and led the campaign for the area's preservation. During the 1920s, the Forest Service briefly considered turning the path into a scenic highway and sent one of its first recreational specialists, Frederick Cleator, to blaze a prospective route through the mountains before scrapping the ideaJoin author Glenn Voelz as he recounts the fascinating history of Oregon's Skyline Trail.
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