On Mount Rainier:

'Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate newborn world ...' John Muir Steep Trails, pg. 294


'The highest and most imposing mountain in our country, outside of Alaska, is Mount Rainier - Tahoma the Indians called it - "the mountain that was God." It is the representative of the Cascades, and the crown of the Puget Sea. One's first view of Rainier, or Tacoma, can never be forgotten.... It is the chosen Apollo among these giant cones that show themselves to men, - rising in one majestic sweep from the surge of the Puget sea to the stars of heaven....'  John Wesley Carter , From the Heights, 1911.


I found these quotes at this web page :  https://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/rainier/case2.htm