Mount Schurz

Mount Schurz
1977
Elevation	11,007 ft (3,355 m) [1]
Pronunciation	/ˈʃɜrts/
Location
Location	Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, USA
Range	Absaroka Range
Coordinates	44°20′33″N 110°04′19″W / 44.3425°N 110.07194°W / 44.3425; -110.07194 (Mount Schurz)Coordinates: 44°20′33″N 110°04′19″W / 44.3425°N 110.07194°W / 44.3425; -110.07194 (Mount Schurz)[1]
Topo map	Eagle Peak

Mount Schurz el. 11,007 feet (3,355 m) is a mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park. Mount Schurz is the second highest peak in Yellowstone. The mountain was origninally named Mount Doane by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in 1871. Later the name Mount Doane was given to another peak in the Absaroka Range by geologist Arnold Hague. In 1885, Hague named the mountain for the 13th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz (1877–1881). Schurz was the first Secretary of the Interior to visit Yellowstone and a strong supporter the national park movement.^[2]

Carl Schurz, namesake of Mount Schurz

See also

• Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Mount Schurz". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1594037. 
2. ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0917298152.