“Mount Rae” appears on this 1857 map by
McKay. Based on this map, it appears they were considering naming one of the peaks in the
Premier Range “Mount Rae”. No mountains in the region currently bear the name; however,
there are still sixteen unnamed peaks above 9,800 feet in the range.
1 McKay and company may have been referring to one of these. It is also possible that, viewed
from below, a section of the range appeared as a single massif, and that “Mount Rae”
refers to several summits.