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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NP9_whats-in-a-name_Jackson-WY.html
Many natural features in this region went without names until the 1800s. The Shoshone called the mountain range "Teewinot," meaning "many pinnacles." French Canadian trappers referred to the Grand, Middle, and South Teton as &q…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NP7_a-once-vibrant-community_Moose-WY.html
Homesteaders, who settled here near the turn of the 19-century, clustered their farms to share labor and community.As you walk imagine 33 homesteads surrounding a church and school. Structures from six homesteads remain here.SettlementLeaders of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NP1_valley-view_Moran-WY.html
From this vantage point, notice how the landscape spreads before you. Geology controls the park's natural communities from valley wetlands to the mountain alpine. Ice-age glaciers periodically blanketed this landscape last retreating 14,000 years …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NOM_capturing-nature-in-a-box_Moose-WY.html
Ansel Adams stood here in 1942 and took this photograph of the vast unspoiled beauty of the Snake River and jagged Teton Range. The National Park Service hired Adams in 1941 to capture nature as exemplified by national parks. At the time local ran…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NOK_tetons-inspiring-creativity_Moose-WY.html
Thomas Moran found the Tetons awe-inspiring even though he, unlike you, was facing the range's western slope. Moran created a series of watercolor field sketches in 1879 and later used them with William H. Jackson's photographs to compose large id…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NN7_meandering-snake_Moose-WY.html
The Snake River twists and turns as it flows over 1,000 miles from Yellowstone National Park through Grand Teton National Park and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean. From Jackson Hole the Snake turns west into Idaho and eventually joins the Columbia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NMO_the-cathedral-group_Alta-WY.html
"These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group . . . more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the gothic note. It is seen in the profiles of the countless firs and spruces congregated like worshippers on the lower …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NMM_potholes_Moose-WY.html
Curious depressions known as "Potholes," dimple the glacial outwash plain here. Some 15,000 years ago, sediment carried by glacial meltwater buried huge blocks of ice that calved off retreating glaciers. As the ice melted, the ground san…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NMJ_young-restless-and-still-rising_Moran-WY.html
Imagine the Teton Range and the valley in front of you like two parts of a giant hinge. The Earth's crust stretches and breaks into two blocks along the 40-mile-long Teton fault. Fractures generate large earthquakes along the fault. The western bl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NME_teton-fault_Moose-WY.html
Looking west toward Mount St. John, notice the steep slope or fault scarp near the base of the peak. This steep slope formed as several massive earthquakes broke the ground by more than 75 feet since the ice-aged glaciers last retreated 14,000 yea…