Mount Hornaday

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 / 44.945°N 110.14611°W / 44.945; -110.14611 (Mount Hornaday)Coordinates: 44°56′42″N 110°08′46″W / 44.945°N 110.14611°W / 44.945; -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

• Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Mount Hornaday". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1589677. 
2. ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 105. ISBN 0917298152.