Mount Hornaday

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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
Coordinates 44°56′42″N 110°08′46″W / 44.94500°N 110.14611°W / 44.94500; -110.14611 (Mount Hornaday)Coordinates: 44°56′42″N 110°08′46″W / 44.94500°N 110.14611°W / 44.94500; -110.14611 (Mount Hornaday)[1]
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

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Mount Hornaday". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. 
  2. Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-917298-15-2. 
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