Name: Inyan Kara Mountain

 

County: Crook

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1042100W

Latitude: 441248N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6348/1935

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Creek, Mountain and Precinct, Crook County, Wyoming.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

Name is from the Indian language, meaning “mountain over a mountain,” as there appears to be one mountain over another. According to some writers, the translation is given as “Hollow Mountain.”

Source: WPA

 

Right from the Custer Junction on a narrow road to Inyan Kara (Indian, stone-made) Mountain, at the top of which Custer carved his name in 1874. Ludlow, the geologist who accompanied Custer, said it resembled "A lunar mountain, having a rim in the shape of a horseshoe, one and one half miles across with an elongated peak rising sharply from the center ... towering 170 feet above the rim and resembling a formation of basaltic columns ... with a narrow spur projecting from it to the southward."

Source: Wyoming Guide 

 

Other Names: 

 

Alternative Spellings: Inyankara Mountain

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Inyan Kara Mountain

 

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