Gannett Peak, Wyoming’s highest mountain, reaches 13,785 feet. The Peak is more than 10,000 feet higher than Wyoming’s lowest point on the Belle Fourche River in northeast Wyoming where the elevation is a mere 3,125 feet above sea level.
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| Gannett Peak |
Gannett Peak was named for Henry Gannett a Harvard educated geographer and map maker who traveled west on the Hayden expedition to map the greater Yellowstone area. The Peak probably would have been named after the pathfinder himself, John C. Fremont, but he had already named a peak after himself mistakenly thinking it the tallest in the area.
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| Henry Gannett |
Seems like Gannett Peak is a great name in this day and age as Mr. Gannett is considered the father of the Quadrangle which is considered the basis for all topographical maps in the United States.
Thursday – Wyoming Trivia
1. What writer is honored by a monument in downtown Medicine Bow, Wyoming?
2. Name the two tribes included in the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868.
3. This became the first incorporated town in Wyoming in 1884, six years before statehood.
4. This animal, found in Wyoming, is used as our nation’s symbol of wilderness areas?
See answers below photo
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| Grizzly Bear - seemed a lot closer when I snapped this photo |
1. Owen Wister – it’s across the street from the Virginian Hotel
2. Shoshone and Bannock
3. Hartville - a five-minute drive from my home
4. Grizzly Bear - maybe I gave this away with the photo
2 comments:
The Blogger format has an option that you can add to your blog, down at the bottom of the individual posts, that allows folks with other Blogger format blogs to directly link to your post, in a link back sort of way.
I wish you'd add it, as there are a lot of these posts, like this one that I'd like to link back in posts to my blogs (like, for example, with this one to my Wyoming history blog). I can do it manually, but in the morning when I actually tend to check the blogs, I often haven't mustered up enough energy to do that yet. Just a suggestion.
Sounds good now it I can just figure it out.
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