Mount Hornaday
{{Short description|Mountain in Wyoming, United States}}
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| name = Mount Hornaday
| photo = MountHornadayYNP.jpg
| photo_caption = As viewed from Pebble Creek
| elevation_ft = 10003
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| location = Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming
| range = Absaroka Range
| coordinates = {{coord|44|56|42|N|110|08|46|W|display=inline, title|name=Mount Hornaday}}
| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=1589677|name=Mount Hornaday}}
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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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{{Mountains of Wyoming}}
{{Tower Roosevelt}}
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