Mount Hornaday

{{Short description|Mountain in Wyoming, United States}}

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| photo_caption = As viewed from Pebble Creek

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| location = Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming

| range = Absaroka Range

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Mount Hornaday el. {{convert|10003|ft|m}} is a mountain peak in the northeast section of Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka Range, Wyoming. The peak was named in 1938 for naturalist William Temple Hornaday, a former director of the New York Zoological Gardens who championed the cause of saving the American Bison from extinction.{{cite book |last=Whittlesey |first=Lee |title=Yellowstone Place Names |publisher=Montana Historical Society Press |location=Helena, MT |isbn=0-917298-15-2 |year=1988 |page=105}}

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Category:Mountains of Wyoming

Category:Mountains of Yellowstone National Park

Category:Mountains of Park County, Wyoming