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Barronette Peak
Named, yet misspelled to honor scout "Yellowstone Jack"
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Barronette Peak el. 10,354 feet (3,156 m) is a mountain peak in the northeast section of Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka Range. The peak is named for Collins Jack (John H. Yellowstone Jack) Baronette (1829–1901). It was named by the Hayden Geological Survey of 1878. When named, the name was misspelled Barronette and it retains the official misspelled name today. Jack Baronette was an early Yellowstone guide and entrepreneur. He built and operated the first bridge across the Yellowstone River near the confluence of the Lamar River in 1871 to service miners traveling to Cooke City, Montana. In 1870, as a resident of Helena, Montana he participated in the search for and rescue of Truman C. Everts, lost during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition of 1870. In 1884, he was considered…
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Collins Jack [John H.] Baronett
Known as the famous scout “Yellowstone Jack”, C. J. Baronett was a colorful and important figure in the early history of Yellowstone. He guided for General Custer and Sheridan after the Civil War.
Despite his service for the Confederacy, Baronett enjoyed the respect and confidence of his former enemies. He was the preferred guide of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan on several junkets through the park and also the only member of the original civilian police force to be retained when the Army took over management of the area in 1886. He thus became the first scout to serve the new administration (he had even been considered for the superintendency, upon the recommendation of the Governor of Montana Territory in 1884).
— Haines (1974)
Geographic Place Name Origin
Named yet misspelled by the USGS in 1878 for the scout “Yellowstone Jack” aka C. J. Baronett.
Baronett’s career was adventurous beyond the average man of his class. He was born in Glencoe, Scotland, in 1829. His father was in the British naval service, and he early began to follow the sea. In his multitudinous wanderings we find him on the coast of Mexico during the Mexican War; on the Chinese coast in 1850, where he deserted his ship and fled to San Francisco; in 1852, in Australia after gold; the next year in Africa, still on a gold hunt; then in Australia again and in San Francisco; next in the Arctic seas as second mate on a whaling vessel; back in California in 1855; courier for Albert Sidney Johnston in the Mormon War; later in Colorado and California searching for gold; scout in the Confederate service until 1863; then in Mexico with the French under Maximilian, who made him a captain; back in California in 1864, and in Montana in September of the same year, where he at once set out on a prospecting trip which took him entirely through the region of the Yellowstone Park; later in the service of Gen. Custer as scout in the Indian territory; then in Mexico and finally back in Montana in 1870; finder of the lost Everts; builder of his celebrated [Yellowstone River toll] bridge in 1871; in the Black Hills in 1875, where he slew a local editor who had unjustly reflected upon him in his paper; scout in the Sioux, Nez Percé, and Bannock Wars, 1876-8; Indian trader for many years; engaged in innumerable prospecting ventures; and still, at the age of sixty-six, searching with his old time ardor for the elusive yellow metal [gold].
— Chittenden page 292
Barronette Peak Photographs
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Soda Butte Creek, looking west toward Barronette Peak. Joseph Paxson Iddings (USGS) photograph above. East face of Baronett Peak, showing Paleozoic limestones capped by breccias. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. ca. 1890. Published as Plate 26, U.S. Geological Survey Monograph 32, part 2. 1899.
Sources
Chittenden, Hiram Martin.
Yellowstone National Park
. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42112/42112-h/42112-h.htm
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Haines, Aubrey L. “Yellowstone National Park: Its Exploration and Establishment,” 1974.
http://npshistory.com/handbooks/historical/yell/haines/index.htm
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Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup: Washburn Group (WYTaw;0)
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Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup
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Washburn Group
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