Mount Everts

Mount Everts
Aerial view of Mount Everts
Elevation	7,831 ft (2,387 m) [1]
Location
Mount Everts Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, USA
Range	Gallatin Range
Coordinates	44°58′30″N 110°39′41″W / 44.975°N 110.66139°W / 44.975; -110.66139Coordinates: 44°58′30″N 110°39′41″W / 44.975°N 110.66139°W / 44.975; -110.66139[1]
Topo map	USGS Mammoth

Mount Everts el. 7,831 feet (2,387 m) is a prominent mountain peak in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming near Mammoth Hot Springs. The peak was named for Truman C. Everts, 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 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. In fact Everts was actually rescued much farther north near Blacktail Deer Creek.^[2]

Images of Mount Everts

Mount Everts' namesake, Truman C. Everts   From Mammoth terraces   Mount Everts from Gardiner, Montana

See also

• Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Mount Everts". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1588354. Retrieved 2009-12-28. 
2. ^ Haines, Aubrey L. (July 1972). "Lost in the Wilderness-Truman Everts' 37 Days of Terror". Montana Magazine of Western History (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society) XXII: 31–41.