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So Ar- V-LlIlffi ? a vl other famous senators Henry Cabot Lodge of thur peak, Cody peak and Plenty ''pY T ' tiYr'ij Massachusetts, Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio Coos peak, perpetuating the names & ' " ' and Elihu Root of New York. Also it might be of a President of the United States, N-. mentioned that Alaska has a peak named for a famous scout, Indian fighter and y .-J rf ' j-"5 a mln Pn whom American boyhood looks showman and a noted chief of the V f S fiV' N with the deePest affection Daniel Carter Beard, Crow Indians, Join the list of mountains that , , " the pioneer in the Boy Scout movement serve as everlasting monuments to individuals. i.r X The list of scientists who have left their These names were suggested by the Cody ; i, H names on ollr hl h laces Is a , one Per. club of Cody, Wyo., the nationa park service . J , haps the outstanding one is Louis Agassiz, the and the national forest service, in response to . r 2 ' V" Swiss naturalist who became a teacher in this a request made by William It. Bandy of Helena, , country and whose name is preserved in moun-cadastral moun-cadastral engineer of the United Sates pub- . tain peaks m Arizonai California and Utah, lie survey office, that these peaks be named. - a . ', California also has honored in the same way Mr. Bandy has had charge of the boundary v J(seph R whjtneyi American Keo,ogist. ,Tolln survey between the park and the forest, which A. - a , x nnturajst who won hjR has been In progress during the past year and K VvM est fame ,n this conntry. SamlleI p. Lnngleyi the he discovered Uiree prominent unnamed peaks. K v i .-v, American astronomer and pioneer in aviation ; Cody peak, with an elevation of 10,500 feet, U. S w y J Jhn Tyndall, the British physicist; John Le- was named in honor of Col. William F. Cody, V .s f' N conte, the American entomologist; Charles Dar- ("Buffalo Bill"). It is located near Pahaska V "'M ' "J win' fte EnS,ish naturalist, immortal for his Tepee, which was the hunting lodge built by t-, ffy VV theory of evolution; Alexander Winchell. Amer- Colonel Cody at the junction of Middle creek v ,v i 7 lcan geologist; and John Ericsson, the Swedish and the North Fork of the Shoshone river, many 11 5s.XSy Inventor and designer of the craft that revohi- years ago. Here "Buffalo Bill" entertained many V'S SNVV tionized naval warfare, the "Monitor" of Civil distinguished visitors whom he took on hunting s war fame- Utah haR a peak wnlch bears the trips through this region. The peak can be seen -SsaaS J ) name of Ferdinand V. Hayden. American geolo- from Uie Cody road leading through the Sho- -V gist and explorer. Bhone national forest into the Yellowstone na- To Colorado- 0'es lhe dlstincUon 01 navini. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON fCENTLY the announcement was made that the United States geographic geo-graphic board had approved of the the names which had been selected for three hitherto unnamed peaks In the Absaroka range on the boundary between Yellowstone National Na-tional park and the Shoshone National Na-tional forest in Wyoming. So Arthur Ar-thur peak, Cody peak and Plenty Coos peak, perpetuating the names of a President of the United States, a famous scout, Indian fighter and showman and a noted chief of the Crow Indians, Join the list of mountains that serve as everlasting monuments to individuals. These names were suggested by the Cody club of Cody, Wyo., the national park service and the national forest service, in response to a request made by William It. Bandy of Helena, cadastral engineer of the United States public pub-lic survey office, that these peaks be named. Mr. Bandy has had charge of the boundary survey between the park and the forest, which has been In progress during the past year and he discovered three prominent unnamed peaks. Cody peak, with an elevation of 10,500 feet, was named in honor of Col. William F. Cody, ("Buffalo Bill"). It is located near Pahaska Tepee, which was the hunting lodge built by Colonel Cody at the junction of Middle creek and the North Fork of the Shoshone river, many years ago. Here "Buffalo Bill" entertained many distinguished visitors whom he took on hunting trips through this region. The peak can be seen from the Cody road leading through the Shoshone Sho-shone national forest into the Yellowstone national na-tional park. Arthur peak, having an elevation of 10,4"6 feet, was named in honor of President Chester A. Arthur who was the first President to enter the Yellowstone park in 1SS3. The peak is located lo-cated south of Reservation peak on the divide between Middle and Canfield creeks. . The highest peak of these three was named 5n honor of Chief Plenty Coos, for many years chief of the Crow Indians. It has an elevation of 10,935 feet, and is located between Arthur and Atkins peaks. Plenty Coos died on March 4, this year, at his home at Pryor, not knowing that this honor had been conferred on him by the United States government. Plenty Coos is the Anglicized version of the K Crow Indian name Aleek-chea-ahoosh, meaning "many achievements" or "plenty coups" (coup being the French word for "stroke" or "blow"). Though he was the son of a chief, Plenty Coos did not inherit his title but won it on the field of battle, for during his career as a warrior against the tribal enemies of the Crows he "counted coup" no less than SO times. During the Sioux war of 1S76-77, he led the Crow allies al-lies of Gen. George Crook and performed valorous valor-ous service at the Battle of the Rosebud on June 17, 1S76, when Chief Crazy Horse of the Sioux fought Crook to a standstill and then retreated to the big Indian camp on the Little Big Horn river where the Sioux Chief was the leading figure in overwhelming Custer's Seventh Sev-enth cavalry. After the Indian wars were over Plenty Coos led his people in following "the white man's road." He was the first of the Crows to take up farming and he became a successful cattle raiser. The outstanding leader of the Crows, he represented his people at many councils in Washington and on November 11, 1921, he was the leading representative of the red race at the burial of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. Arling-ton. At the time of his death Plenty Coos was the last of the really great chiefs so that it Is singularly appropriate that a mountain peak In the range which bears the name of his people peo-ple (the Absarokas or Absarokes, the "Sparrow Hawk people" or Crows) should perpetuate his fame for future Americans, both white and red. But Plenty Coos is not the only Indian chief whose fame is preserved in the name of a mountain. In the White mountains of New Hampshire there are peaks named for Osceola, the Seminole who gave the United States government gov-ernment so much trouble about a century ago, and for Tecumseh, the great Shawnee leader, whose resistance to the white nice ended only with his death at the Battle of the Thames during dur-ing the War of 1S12. Colorado has a mountain named Red Cloua to recall the name of the great Sioux war chief and the Washakie Needles in Wyoming Is a perpetual monument to noble old Chief Washakie of the Shoshones. who, like Plenty Coos, fought on the side of the white man in General Crook's army against the Sioux and Cheyennes in 1S7G-77. And down in the Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina they ere talkins of naming a G.OxMjot peak Seqnn-- ah in honor of the "Cadmus of the Cherokees," Sequoyah or George Guess, the Indian artist who devised an alphabet for his people. It is said that New Hampshire leads all other American states in the number of mountains named for famous persons. Although her peaks are not as high as those in other states, she makes up for this in the numbers and in the dignity of the names. She has a Presidential range composed of peaks, all of them more than 5,000 feet high, which bear the names of five of our early Chief Executives Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and elsewhere else-where in the state mountains honoring two other oth-er Presidents Jackson and Lincoln. Then there are two honoring men who nearly became President Presi-dent Clay and Webster, one in honor of a famous foreigner who was a friend of the young republic, Lafayette, and another which is a perpetual reminder of that "mast versatile versa-tile American," Benjamin Franklin. Other historic his-toric names on peaks In the White mountain state are Hancock, Field, Clinton, Willey, Starr King and Crawford. Other states which have named their mountain moun-tain peaks for Presidents are Washington which has a Mt. Adams, Oregon which has a Mt. Washington Wash-ington and a Mt. Jefferson, Colorado which has a Lincoln, a Wilson and a U. S. Grant, Montana Mon-tana which has a Cleveland, Nevada which has a Grant and Utah which has a Wilson. And in Alaska in the lofty grandeur of its 20,300 feet, the highest mountain in North America, stands Mt. McKinley, named in 1S9G, in honor of William Wil-liam McKinley, so soon to become one of our "martyr Presidents." Alaska also has a Quiney Adams to recall the fame of the second of that line who served in the White House. Statesmen, generals, explorers, scientists and a great variety of other notables who left their imprint upon our history have also left their imprint upon our geography in mountains named for them. Harney peak, the highest in South Dakota, is named for Gen. W. S. Harney, Mexican and Civil war veteran and famous Indian In-dian fighter. Fremont peak in Wyoming recalls Gen. John C. Fremont, "the Pathfinder." Western West-ern explorer. Civil war general and Presidential candidate, and Colorado has a Mt Sherman, named In honor of Grant's right-hand man In the Civil war, and commander of the army when it was engaged In subduing the Indians In the West, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Some time ago Idaho honored her famous senator, sen-ator, William E. Borah by naming the highest point in the state after him (Borah peak, 12,655 feet) and Alaska has peaks named after three other famous senators Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio and Elihu Root of New York. Also it might be mentioned that Alaska has a peak named for a man upon whom American boyhood looks with the deepest affection Daniel Carter Beard, the pioneer in the Boy Scout movement The list of scientists who have left their names on our high places Is a long one. Perhaps Per-haps the outstanding one Is Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist who became a teacher in this country and whose name is preserved in mountain moun-tain peaks m Arizona, California and Utah. California also has honored in the same way Joseph R. Whitney, American geologist; John Muir, the Scotch naturalist who won his greatest great-est fame in this country ; Samuel P. Langley, the American astronomer and pioneer in aviation ; John Tyndall, the British physicist ; John Le-conte, Le-conte, the American entomologist ; Charles Darwin, Dar-win, the English naturalist, immortal for his theory of evolution ; Alexander Winchell. American Amer-ican geologist; and John Ericsson, the Swedish inventor and designer of the craft that revolutionized revolu-tionized naval warfare, the "Monitor" of Civil war fame. Utah has a peak which bears the name of Ferdinand V. Hayden. American geologist geolo-gist and explorer. To Colorado goes the distinction oi haviny perhaps the best known mountain peak in the United States Pikes peak, named for Zebulon Montgomery Pike, a native of New Jersey, whose fame as an explorer came to a tragic end during the War of 1S12. Pike's explorations In the West included an expedition to trace the Mississippi river to its source in 1S05-06 and an exploration of the newly-acquired Louisiana Lou-isiana territory in 1S06-07. It was during the latter expedition that he "discovered" the peak which now bears his name, although it is pretty certain that he was not the first American to gaze upon that lofty summit. That had been done several years before by an American adventurer, ad-venturer, named James Pursley or Purcell of Kentucky. More than that, Pike himself never reached the summit of this mountain, that hon-. or falling to the lot of a later explorer, Edwin Ed-win James, the botanist and geologist who accompanied ac-companied the exploring expedition of Maj. Stephen H. Long to the Rocky mountains in 1818-20. In recognition of his feat of climbing the mountain, Long named it James' peak but in later years that was changed to honor the name of its "discoverer" and became Pikes peak. Not the least of the fame of this mountain lies in the fact that an expression coined during dur-ing the gold rush to Colorado in the late fifties has become a symbol of American determination. determina-tion. On the canvas tops of the prairie schooners schoon-ers which wound their way across the prairies prai-ries of the Great West were painted these words "Pikes Peak or Bust !" and that expression ex-pression is still frequently heard when an American declares his firm purpose to reach his goal no matter what difficulties lie before him. Not only was a member oi the Long expedition expedi-tion the first to climb Pikes peak but it also climbed another peak which today bears the name of Stephen H. Long and Longs peak in the Rocky Mountain National park is second only in fame to its sister mountain in Colorado. Colo-rado. Recently Colorado has added another to its list of mountains which honor famous men by giving a peak the name of that fearless explorer ex-plorer of the air, Col. Charles Lindbergh. Not all of the peaks in the United States which bear the names of men pay tribute to Americans alone for two famous mountains on the Pacific coast are named for British naval officers. In Oregon Mount Hood raises its hoary head high above the surrounding country and looks down from the height of 11,000 feet' upon the Columbia river. This mountain was first discovered by white men in 1792. No one knows just which member of Vancouver's expedition first saw it and gave it a name in honor of Admiral Samuel Hood of his majesty's navy. People in Washington have had a long dispute dis-pute over one of their most famous peaks. Is it proper to say Mount Tacoma or Mount Rainier? Seattle insists upon honoring the name of Rear Admiral Rainier of the Eritish navy rather than that of -Tacoma, a rival city. tui by Western New -paper Union. |