Mount Hornaday

Mount Hornaday is located in Wyoming
Mount Hornaday
Mount Hornaday
Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming
Parent rangeAbsaroka RangeTopo mapMount 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]

Mount Hornaday's namesake, William Temple Hornaday

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Notes

  1. ^ a b "Mount Hornaday". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-917298-15-2.
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