Mount Hornaday

Mount Hornaday

As viewed from Pebble Creek
Elevation 10,003 ft (3,049 m) [1]
Location
Location Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming
Range Absaroka Range
Topo map Mount Hornaday

Mount Hornaday el. 10,003 feet (3,049 m) is a mountain peak in the northeast section of Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka Range, Wyoming. The peak was named in 1938 for naturalist William Temple Hornaday, a former director of the New York Zoological Gardens who championed the cause of saving the American Bison from extinction[2].

Images of Mount Hornaday
Mount Hornaday's namesake, William Temple Hornaday  

See also

Notes

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  2. ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 105. ISBN 0917298152.