Hazard Stevens (June 9, 1842 – October 11, 1918) was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Huger. Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier on August 17, 1870.
Read more about Hazard Stevens: Early Life and The Civil War, After The War and The Ascent of Mount Rainier, Later Life, Medal of Honor Citation
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“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“You were created of your name, the word
Is that of which you were the personage.
There is no life except in the word of it.”
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