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Mount Everts is a 7,846-foot mountain near Mammoth Hot Springs that dominates the landscape between Gardiner and the Yellowstone River at Yellowstone’s north entrance. It was named by Henry D. Washburn for Truman C. Everts after Everts became lost for 37 days following the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition of 1870, though the rescue actually occurred farther northeast and the name had first been used for another summit. The mountain is also significant geologically: its slopes preserve Cretaceous sedimentary rocks and younger volcanic deposits from Yellowstone’s hot spot, showing how uplift and erosion left harder volcanic rock standing prominently above the surrounding terrain.
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Mammoth, Wyoming · United States
