Mt. Baker. Bride of the Pacific. Or in the Lummi Indian tongue, Kulshan.
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Named for the legend of a handsome youth with two wives. One stubborn, but beautiful, Duh-hwahk, the other amiable and attractive in manner, Whaht-kway.
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After both wives were lost, one from jealousy, the other from a loyalty to family and tribe, Kulshan rose to the top of the hills standing taller and straining upwards into the sky to see if he might catch an occasional glimpse of his departed wives.
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There he still stands today, always white robed, and peering west towards the Sound and south towards the Central Cascades in between the clouds and fog that shroud his slopes.
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Source: Skagit River Journal of History and Folklore