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 | |
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![]() As viewed from Pebble Creek | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 10,003 ft (3,049 m)[1] |
Coordinates | 44°56′42″N 110°08′46″W / 44.94500°N 110.14611°W[1] |
Geography | |
Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming | |
Parent range | Absaroka Range |
Topo map | Mount Hornaday |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/William_Hornaday.jpg/170px-William_Hornaday.jpg)
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b "Mount Hornaday". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-917298-15-2.
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