Teton range peak namesThe Grand Teton park newspaper prints this drawing of the peaks of the Teton Range, with their names:
The park newspaper said this about the origins of the names of the peaks:
"Static Peak In the Teton Range north of Death
Canyon. Named because it is often hit
by lightning.
Buck Mountain Named for George A. Buck, recorder for
T.M. Bannon’s 1898 mapping party.
Bannon gave the name "Buck Station" to
the triangulation station he and George
Buck established on the summit in 1898.
Grand Teton Highest mountain in the Teton Range.
Named by French trappers. Upon viewing
the Teton Range from the west, the
trappers dubbed the South, Middle, and
Grand, Les Trois Tetons, meaning ”the
three breasts.” Wilson Price Hunt called
them ”Pilot Knobs” in 1811 because he
had used them for orientation while
crossing Union Pass. In his Journal of a
Trapper, Osborne Russel said that the
Shoshone Indians named the peaks
”Hoary Headed Fathers.”
Mount Owen Northeast of the Grand Teton. Named for
W.O. Owen, who climbed the Grand
Teton in 1898 with Bishop Spalding, John
Shive, and Frank Petersen."
Teewinot
Towers above Cascade Canyon and Jenny
Lake. Its name comes from the Shoshone
word meaning ”many pinnacles.”
Teewinot probably once applied to the
entire Teton Range, rather than just this
one peak. Fritiof Fryxell and Phil Smith
named the peak when they successfully
completed the first ascent of the
mountain in 1929.
Mount Saint John
Between Cascade and Paintbrush
canyons. A series of peaks of nearly equal
height. Named for Orestes St. John,
geologist of Hayden’s 1877 survey, whose
monographs of the Teton and Wind River
ranges are now classics.
Mount Moran Most prominent peak in the northern
end of the Teton Range. Named by
Ferdinand V. Hayden for the landscape
artist Thomas Moran, who traveled with
the 1872 Hayden expedition into
Yellowstone and into Pierre’s Hole on the
western side of the Teton Range. He
produced many sketches and watercolors
from these travels.
From the book Origins by Hayden
and Nielsen."
Grand Tetons trip pages index has brief descriptions of most of the pages about the De Anza College trip.
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