Mt. Rainier From Gig Harbor, WA
This piece celebrates this most noted view of the great Cascade Mountian Range volcano, Mount Rainier, viewed from what will be eventually a small quaint coastal town along Puget Sound's southern reaches now known as Gig Harbor, where its namesake relates to the very early fishing industry. But in the scene portrayed, a Nisqually nomadic Indian tribe goes about its daily life under the veil of this most impressive mount, and it's a cool summer morning, in the year 1840. This, long before other 'native Americans', (like me), through manifest destiny, ventured here and built a village, and another chapter began for this harbor and view.......
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