Mount Everts el. 7,846 feet (2,391 m) is a prominent mountain peak in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming near Mammoth Hot Springs. The peak was named for Truman C. Everts,[3] a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition of 1870. Mount Everts is located immediately due south of Gardiner, Montana and due east of Mammoth Hot Springs.
History
Mount Everts was named by Henry D. Washburn shortly after the rescue of Truman C. Everts who had been lost for 37 days in Yellowstone at the conclusion of the Washburn Expedition. During the expedition, Washburn named a peak (now called Mount Sheridan[4] ) in the Thorofare region south of Yellowstone Lake for Everts, but later changed it to the current peak believing it was very near the location of Everts rescue. Everts was in fact rescued a few miles to the northeast near where Blacktail Deer Creek enters the Yellowstone River at the northern park boundary and the mountain is the dominate feature separating what is now known as Gardner from the northerly flowing Yellowstone River.[5] Mr. Everts complained until his death that the far more grand Mount Sheridan should have been named after him.[4]
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