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Bannock Peak

Peak in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Mammoth, WY

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Geographic Place Name Origin

Named by the USGS in 1885 after the Bannock Native Americans:

From the name of a tribe of Indians who inhabited the country to the south-west of the Park, and were finally settled on a reservation in southern Idaho. What is known as the Great Bannock Trail, passed along the valley of Indian Creek, some distance south of this mountain. The spelling here given is that which custom seems finally to have settled upon; but Bannack would more nearly express the original pronunciation. The various spellings, some sixteen in number, come from the original Panai’hti, or Bannai’hti, meaning southern people.

— Chittenden page 291

Historical Photographs

Bannock Peak in the Gallatin Range. View is from Panther Creek Valley. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. ca. 1890. Joseph Paxson Iddings (USGS)

Sources

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