Name: String Lake

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1104401W

Latitude: 434716N

 

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Elevation: 6880/2097

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Lake

 

Origin of Name:

Named in honor of Richard Leigh (Beaver Dick), a guide with the Hayden expedition of 1872. He had his permanent home in Teton valley, Idaho, but spent a good deal of time in Jackson Hole. There was considerable dissatisfaction about changing the name of String Lake to Beaver Dick Lake because Leigh, himself, gave it the name String Lake which accurately describes it.  

Source: WPA

 

"Beaver Dick," whose proper name was Richard Leigh, was the most picturesque figure in the Teton region during the decades immediately preceding settlement. ... Beaver Dick figures prominently in the early history of the Teton region, where for most of his life (it is said that he was 16 when he came into the region) he trapped, hunted, and acted in the capacity of guide. He is buried on a hilltop at the mouth of Teton Canyon. In the Grand Teton National Park, the names of two beautiful lakes, Beaver Dick Lake and Leigh Lake, perpetuate his memory, and an adjoining body of water, jenny Lake, is named after his first Indian wife.

Source: Annals 15(1) 

 

Other Names: Beaver Dick Lake

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Jenny Lake

 

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