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View of Mount Schurz from Yellowstone National Park (Photo 1977)

The Mount Schurz is a mountain in the southeast of Yellowstone National Park in the US state of Wyoming . Its summit is 3355  m above sea level. NHN (or 11,007 feet ) the park's second highest elevation. The mountain belongs to the western Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains and is located in Park County (Wyoming) east of Yellowstone Lake . A few kilometers to the southeast is the highest peak in the national park, Eagle Peak .

Originally, Henry Dana Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford had named the mountain as part of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition after their third companion in 1871 Mount Doane ; In the same year the geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden gave this name to another peak of the Absaroka Range about 15 km further north. In 1885 the geographer Arnold Hague named the mountain after the German-American politician Carl Schurz , who had served as Secretary of the Interior of the United States from 1877 to 1881 in the Hayes cabinet . Schurz had campaigned for the interests of the country's national parks and was the first US Secretary of the Interior in 1880, together with the President's son Webb Hayes and escorted by the Indian War General George Crook and 14 infantrymen, who (before the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883) was still isolated located Yellowstone National Park visited. Like the naming of other summits after politicians and generals, this was done for public relations reasons, according to historian Richard A. Bartlett.

When the Belgian travel writer Jules Leclerq toured the park in 1883, another - now unnamed - mountain was named Mount Schurz , namely an 8,400-foot peak at the Monument Geyser Basin in the northwest of the Yellowstone Caldera near the Norris Geyser Basin .

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  1. ↑ Feature Detail Report for: Mount Schurz. In: United States Board on Geographic Names (Ed.): Geographic Names Information System , entry June 5, 1979.
  2. ^ Richard A. Bartlett: Nature's Yellowstone. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1974, p. 9 .
  3. ^ Orrin H. Bonney, Lorraine G. Bonney: Battle Drums and Geysers: The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions. Sage Books, Chicago 1970, p. 313; George Black: Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone. St Martin's Press, New York 2012, p. 546, endnote 3 .
  4. ^ A b Jules Leclerq: Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America's National Park. Translated and edited. by Janet Chapple and Suzanne Cane. With a foreword by Lee H. Whittlesey. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, London 2013, p. 226, end note 2 .
  5. ↑ See especially for Yellowstone Richard A. Bartlett: Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1985, pp. 123 and 215 .
  6. ↑ Dan L. Thrapp: Roberts, Cyrus Swan. In: ders .: Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Vol. 3: P-Z. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, London 1988, p. 1226 ; Richard A. Bartlett: Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1985, pp. 32 and 227 f.
  7. ↑ See the diary entries of an escort participant: Charles M. Robinson (Ed.): The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke. Vol. 4: July 3, 1880 - May 22, 1881. University of North Texas Press, Denton 2009, Chapter 3: Carl Schurz and Yellowstone National Park , pp. 64-85 (preview) .
  8. ^ Richard A. Bartlett: Nature's Yellowstone. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1974, p. 32 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 21 ′  N , 110 ° 4 ′  W