Name: Greybull River

 

County: Big Horn, Park

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1080259W

Latitude: 442815N 

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 3802/1159

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Stream

 

Origin of Name:

On a cliff overhanging the river near the town of Greybull in a pictograph is pictured a buffalo with an arrow through his body. With this picture goes the story that an old gray bull which ranged up and down the river chased by the Indians was finally killed by driving it over the edge of this bluff into the river below. Another story goes that an old gray buffalo bull hung along this river for years and that every buffalo hunter in the country tried to kill him without success and that these hunters referred to the river as the Greybull.

Source: WPA

 

The town Greybull is named after the Greybull River which, legend relates, was named for a strangely colored gray buffalo bull that ranged up and down the river in defiance of hunters who sought to kill him. Indian pictographs on a cliff overhanging the river represent a buffalo bull with an arrow through his body.

Source: Annals 14(3)  

 

River, Park and Big Horn Counties, Wyo., ... flowing in a general northeasterly direction, empties into the Big Horn River ... .

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Other Names: 

 

Alternative Spellings: Grey Bull River, Graybull River, Gray Bull River

 

History:

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Greybull South

 

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