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Booker Mountain is an 8,284-foot peak in Washington’s North Cascades, between Park Creek and the Stehekin River, in a rugged landscape shaped by tectonic activity, accreted terranes, faulting, and repeated Pleistocene glaciation. Its significance rests especially in the origin of its name. After Tacoma painter Abby Williams Hill painted the then-unnamed peak in 1903, the National Geological Survey invited her to name it, and she chose to honor Booker T. Washington. Inspired by hearing him lecture in Tuskegee and affected by what she witnessed under Jim Crow in the South, Hill made the naming both a personal and political act. Climbers later completed the first ascent of its Northeast Face in 1964.
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