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1901 Map of Bald Mountain

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Bald Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1901
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1901

About this map

The Big Horn Forest Reserve dominates this 1901 survey, capturing the rugged interior of the Bighorn Mountains at the turn of the century. The map highlights the early industrial footprint in this high-altitude wilderness, specifically the Fortunatus Mill located north of Bald Mountain. The presence of such a facility deep in the range, surrounded by peaks like Medicine Mt. and Hunt Mt., indicates the late nineteenth-century push for mineral extraction in northern Wyoming.

Settlement is sparse, with Cloverly standing as the primary named community in the southern foothills along the drainage of Shell Creek. The landscape is a network of deep canyons and high basins, including Cookstove Basin and Devil Canyon. The map also delineates the Wyoming Montana Boundary Line to the north, where waters such as Lodge Grass Creek and the West Fork Little Horn River begin their descent toward the neighboring state.