Word: tacoma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...
...Aside from Dr. Cook's fanciful voyage to the North Pole, no fiction of modern times approaches that involved in the movement to change the historic name of Mount Rainier bestowed by its discoverer, Captain George Vancouver, in 1792, in accordance with time honored custom, to Mount Tacoma, on the plea that the latter was the aboriginal name. The rank and file of the people of Tacoma are sincere and honorable?a typical cross section of the genus Americanus. They have been told?and are told daily? that the Indian name was Mount Tacoma, and they are ready to fight...
...bitter and vindictive spirit in which the campaign for Mount Tacoma has been conducted has been detrimental to the cause and has resulted in the alignment of practically the entire State of Washington against Tacoma, not only in the matter of the Mountain, but in the way of sympathy and fellowship...
...person or any organization that opposes Tacoma's pet ambition is subjected to vilification and misrepresentation...
...That the name Tacoma was never heard or printed until Winthrop brought out his book in 1862; and that he either invented it or corrupted from some Indian word which he did not understand, such as "tkohph" (white), which his guide might have used in pointing to the snowy mountains...