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Show Man Long Forgotten Gave Name to Mount Early records of the Hudson's Bay company state that there landed in Hudson bay, close to the end of the ! Eighteenth century, one "Joseph Rob-son, Rob-son, blacksmith." Obscurity and fame exist side by .lde on Mount Uohson. 12,972 feet, highest peak In fhe Canadian Itockies The mountain itself It widely known for Its splendor, for the impression of towering height which It gives, as It stands at the head of "he Grand Forks valley. But the origin of its name and the manner of Its naming have rested long In the shadows. The legend came down from t. tribe of the Shuswap Indians, who In the early Nienteenlh century had worked their way from the west coast Into the mountains. They had a small encamp ment on the banks of the Fraser Long ago. they say, when white men were seldom seen In the mountains, moun-tains, a party of these strangers came in over Yellowhead pass from the East and camped close to the river with the mountain high above them. Their horses were poor and thin. They had traveled far. The newcomers sat long into the twilight, made silent by the closeness of this mighty column of Ice and rock that reached into the skies. Never he fore, they declared, had they come upon anything to compare with It In the morning they gathered theit horses and prepared to shoe those that needed it. A blacksmith was in the party. As he grasped a hind foot the horse reared and kicked. The blacksmith took the blow In his head and died. His name was Uobsou. |