Who is mount hood named after

According to one legend, the mountain was once a beautiful maiden, "Loowit". When two sons of the Great Spirit "Sahale" fell in love with her, she could not choose between them. The two braves, Wyeast and Klickitat fought over her, burying villages and forests in the process.

Sahale was furious. He smote the three lovers and erected a mighty mountain peak where each fell. Because Loowit was beautiful, her mountain Mount St. Helens was a beautiful, symmetrical cone of dazzling white. The mountain is not the only one in the Pacific Northwest that's had its name changed. Another iconic peak, Mount Rainier, is named after a white general who never spent time in the Pacific Northwest. But locally, the name Denali, from the native Athabascan language, was the one that stuck.

When we asked our listeners on Facebook what they thought, Paul Wagner brought up the fact that there is no popular movement to rename Mount Hood. Which, incidentally, will never happen. Everyone in Alaska refers to McKinley as Denali making this comparison rather ridiculous, but perhaps great click-bait. Facebook commenter Pam Bolton raised a related issue:. Map modified from: Brantley and Scott, Helens, and Mount Hood. Arrowsmith, January 1st Published: London, Notes: Relief shown by hachures.

Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, L. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. Arrowsmith, No. Includes notes. Reference: Tooley. Printed maps of America Scale [ca.

Original Map: "North America". Year: Author: Robert Wilkinson and E. Notes: Scale, ca. Wilkinson, 12th of Aug. Univerisity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Website, Lewis ; copied by Nicholas King, Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Note from map folder: Map was copied from a sketch by William Clark, not one by Meriwether Lewis as indicated in the title.

Copy sectioned and mounted on cloth. C5 Vault Oversize. Includes three of the five volcanoes Lewis and Clark saw and commented on. While the journals mention the expedition seeing Mount Adams, it does not appear on their map.

Mount Jefferson is to the south bottom and off the map. Philadelphia : Bradford and Insskeep, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University upbover maps Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library Website, Map includes three of the five volcanoes Lewis and Clark saw and commented on.

Mount Jefferson is just visible to the south bottom and Mount Rainier is to the north but off the map. Includes Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson. Helens are missing. Also shows Fort Clatsop "F.