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Signal Hills

Hill in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Lake, WY

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Signal Hills is a ridge of hills that ascends easterly up from Yellowstone Lake’s Signal Point. Signal Point was named from an August 14th 1871 signal fire lit by Hayden Expedition members Albert C. Peale and Steve D. Hovey to guide separated expedition parties to their new main camp. (Chittenden 1895, 307; Merrill 1999, 159-60)

Hayden Survey camp scene with Steve D. Hovey “wagon boss” on a horse in Yellowstone National Park. Photographer William Henry Jackson (USGS 1871)

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Chittenden, Hiram Martin. Yellowstone National Park. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42112/42112-h/42112-h.htm.

Merrill, Marlne Deahl, ed. Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.