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Hazard Stevens
1842–1918
A Civil War officer, Medal of Honor recipient, and pioneering mountaineer, he also left behind vivid writing rooted in the history of the American West. He is especially remembered for helping make the first documented successful ascent of Mount Rainier and for writing a major biography of his father, Isaac I. Stevens.
2 Audiobooks
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Hazard Stevens
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Hazard Stevens
About the author
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1842, he was the son of Isaac I. Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory. As a boy he spent time in the Pacific Northwest, later served in the Union army during the Civil War, and received the Medal of Honor for bravery at Fort Huger.
After the war, he built a varied public life in Washington Territory and became widely known beyond politics for exploration and writing. In 1870, he and P. B. Van Trump made the first documented successful ascent of Mount Rainier, a feat that secured his place in the story of American mountaineering.
As an author, he is best known for The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, a substantial biographical work that drew on family knowledge and historical records to recount the career of his father. His writing combines firsthand experience, regional history, and a strong sense of the people and events that shaped the nineteenth-century Northwest.