Name: Absaroka Range

 

County: Park

 

Authority Name: Absaroka Range (Mont. and Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1092021W

Latitude: 435740N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 13143/4006

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Range

 

Origin of Name: 

Mountains in and near Yellowstone National Park, Mont. and Wyo. (Not Shoshone, Snow, nor Yellowstone.)

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

Mountain range, trends NNW-SSE with a highest elevation over 13,000 ft., bounded on the NE by the Beartooth Mountains, on the N and W by the Yellowstone River, on the S by the Wind River, on the SE by the Owl Creek Mountains, and on the E by the Bighorn Basin. Not: Sierra Shoshone, Snow Mountains, Snowy Mountains, Snowy Range, Yellowstone Mountains.

Source: Decisions, 1966

 

Range of mountains in Wyoming, named from the native name of the Crow Indians. Grinnell says the word refers to some kind of a bird, possibly crows.

Source: Gannett, 1905

 

Absaroka is the name by which the Crow know themselves, although according to Lewis and Clark it designated but one band of the tribe. It significance is uncertain, although usually thought to be certain species of hawk. The name "Crow" -literally raven, but translated "Corbeaux" by the French - is an Anglicized form of the name given to this tribe by the surrounding Indians, and may refer to their pilfering tendencies.

Source: WPA

 

Other Names: Sierra Shoshone, Snow Mountains, Snowy Mountains, Snowy Range, Yellowstone Mountains, Snow Range, Shoshone Range, Yellowstone Range 

 

Alternative Spellings: 

 

History: 

 

Stories: 

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Francs Peak 

 

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Pictures:

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Yellowstone Lake lagoon just west of the outlet, looking southeast toward the Absaroka Range.

Photograph by J. P. Iddings, Circa 1890. 

Courtesy of the United States Geological Survey Photographic Library