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Barlow Peak
Remote Peak Along the Upper Snake River
Peak
in
Yellowstone NP
,
Rocky Mountains
near
Grant Village
,
WY
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Barlow Peak el. 9,609 feet (2,929 m) is an isolated mountain peak in the Big Game Ridge section of southwest Yellowstone National Park south of the Continental Divide. Barlow peak was named by geologist Arnold Hague in 1885 for Captain John W. Barlow an early topographical engineer mapping in the park.
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Geographic Place Name Origin
Barlow Peak was named by the USGS in 1895 to honor J. W. Barlow of the Corps of Engineers.
For Captain (now Colonel) J. W. Barlow, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., leader of the military expedition which entered the Park region in 1871. His name was first applied to the upper course of the Snake River, but was recently transferred to a neighboring mountain peak.
— Chittenden page 291
John Whitney Barlow
JOHN WHITNEY BARLOW. Born in Wyoming County, N.Y., June 26, 1838; died Feb. 27, 1914, at Jerusalem, Palestine. The engineer officer in charge of the Army’s 1871 party of Yellowstone explorers and co-author of the official report.
— Haynes (1974)
… He reached the permanent rank of major of engineers Apr. 30, 1869, when he was assigned to General Sheridan’s staff as Chief Engineer of the Military Division of the Missouri, serving in that capacity until July 1874. His field work during that period included several scientific expeditions, his reconnaissance of the Upper Yellowstone in 1871 being the most important. While with a Northern Pacific Railroad surveying party the following year, his escort fought off an attack by a thousand Sioux under Sitting Bull.
— Haynes (1974)
Reports authored:
Barlow, John W., and David P. Heap.
Report of a Reconnaissance of the Basin of the Upper Yellowstone in 1871.
Senate Executive Documents, 42d Cong., 2d Sess., No. 66 (1872).
Maps authored:
Barlow, John W., and David P. Heap. “Sketch of the Yellowstone Lake and the Valley of the Upper Yellowstone River.” Drawn by Emil Heubach, Feb. 28, 1872. Head quarters map file, Q 181, records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Record Group 77, National Archives.
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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
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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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