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Hazard Stevens
1842–1918
A Civil War officer, Medal of Honor recipient, and mountaineer, he is remembered as one of the first men to complete a documented ascent of Mount Rainier in 1870. He also wrote about the American West and preserved the story of his father, territorial governor 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 moved west with his family after his father became the first governor of Washington Territory. As a teenager he was drawn into frontier conflict, and during the Civil War he served in the Union Army, where his actions at Fort Huger later earned him the Medal of Honor.
After the war, he built a varied public life in the Pacific Northwest as a soldier, businessman, politician, writer, and adventurer. He is especially well known for making the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier with Philemon B. Van Trump on August 17, 1870, a feat that secured his place in the history of American mountaineering.
He also turned to writing, including books about his father and the settlement of the Northwest. That mix of battlefield courage, frontier ambition, and literary record-making gives his life a broad, memorable sweep.