The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Looking up the Columbia from Hood River, Oregon. Wiyeast and Klickitat to death. But they had been beautiful in life, thereforeSaghalie would have them beautiful in death. So he made of them the threefamous snow-peaks. Wiyeast became the mountain which white men callMount Hood; Klickitat be-came Mount Adams; Loowitwas changed into Mount Always, said Sagha-lie, they should be clothedin garments of snow. Thus was the wonderfultamahnawas bridge destroy-ed, and the great river dam-med by the huge rocks thatfell

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The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Looking up the Columbia from Hood River, Oregon. Wiyeast and Klickitat to death. But they had been beautiful in life, thereforeSaghalie would have them beautiful in death. So he made of them the threefamous snow-peaks. Wiyeast became the mountain which white men callMount Hood; Klickitat be-came Mount Adams; Loowitwas changed into Mount Always, said Sagha-lie, they should be clothedin garments of snow. Thus was the wonderfultamahnawas bridge destroy-ed, and the great river dam-med by the huge rocks thatfell into it. That caused theCascade rapids. Above therapids, when the river is low,you can still see the foreststhat were buried when thebridge fell down and dammedthe waters. This noteworthy myth,fit to rank with the folk-loremasterpieces of any primitivepeople, Greek or Gothic, is of course only a legend. The Hood River, fed by the glaciers of Mount 44 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA

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