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Sepulcher Mountain
Crypt or Tomb Mountain
Mountain
on
Sepulcher Mountain Trail
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Yellowstone NP
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Rocky Mountains
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Mammoth
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WY
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In 1871, Captain Barlow frequently escorted the Interior Department’s famous Hayden 1871 Expedition, exploring an unknown Yellowstone before it became a national park. For military logistical reasons “Capt. John W. Barlow, chief engineer of the Military Division of the Missouri, had orders from General Sheridan to explore and map the Yellowstone region.” (Barlow 1976). During Barlow’s exploration of northwestern Yellowstone, he named and mapped Sepulcher Mountain, which in some unknown way, reminded him of a crypt or tomb.
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Baldwin, Kenneth H. “Enchanted Enclosure: The Army Engineers and Yellowstone National Park,” 1976.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/baldwin/index.htm
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Chittenden, Hiram Martin.
Yellowstone National Park
. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895.
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United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers. “Sketch of the Yellowstone Lake and the valley of the upper Yellowstone River. Route of Capt’s J.W. Barlow and D.P. Heap, Corps of Engineers, in their reconnoissance of that region during the summer of 1871.” Map. Washington: United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers, [ca. 1871]. Digital Commonwealth,
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Whittlesey, L.H.
Yellowstone Place Names
. Second. Wonderland Publishing Company, 2006.
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Sepulcher Mountain el. 9,642 feet (2,939 m) is a moderate mountain peak in northwest Yellowstone National Park halfway between the summit of Electric Peak and Mammoth Hot Springs. The peak was named Sepulcher by Captain John W. Barlow, U.S. Army in 1871 because of it resemblance to a crypt when viewed from Gardiner, Montana. The summit of Sepulcher Mountain can be reached by a 7.2 miles (11.6 km) trail from the mouth of Clematis Creek at Mammoth Hot Springs.
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Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup: Washburn Group (WYTaw;0)
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