Word: tacomaâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Theodore Winthrop made a journey over the Cascades; nine years later, he described his journey in a book, The Canoe and the Saddle. Therein he said: "Mount Regnier, Christians have dubbed it. . . . More melodiously, the Siwashes call it Tacoma???a generic term also applied to all snow peaks." Therewith was engendered a controversy...
...representatives in Congress set out to fulfill their wishes over the heads of the Geographic Board. Not only was the matter taken to Congress, but an old-fashioned war of pamphlets began. First the Tacoma-ites got out The Name. Then the Rainierians retorted with The Great Myth?"Mount Tacoma?...
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