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Mitchell's Point Tunnel Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in five arched windows carved through basalt cliff

captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

and its presidents into a single tableau and called it inheritance

the schematic detailing a brimmed hood cut for a horse's ears in an age when carriage teams and plow horses worked the long American summer bareheaded under a punishing sun

Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley'1 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Mitchell's Point Tunnel Columbia RiverRainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley arrives in glacier bright summits looming over meadows ablaze with lupine and avalanche lily, the great mountain mirrored in snowmelt tarns as wildflower fields roll toward timberline. Here the Paradise Inn welcomed motorists in touring coats a high country wonderland cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early auto tourist era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards