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Name History (Mt. Princeton)Title: Naming of Mt. Princeton Entered by: xavier81_81 Added: 2/1/2024, Last Updated: 2/1/2024 Sources: Hayden, F. V. (1874). Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Embracing Colorado. Government Printing Office. In addition to being called Chalk Mountain, it was also referred to as Mount Bowles in 1873, presumably named after Samuel Bowles of the Hayden Survey. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden referred to it as the first peak of the Sawatch range in the south to north direction (Hayden, 1874, p. 233). |
Name History (Mt. Princeton)Title: Naming of Mt. Princeton Entered by: 14erFred Added: 5/14/2010, Last Updated: 5/14/2010 Sources: Borneman, W.R., & Lampert, L.J. (1978). A climbing guide to Colorado's Fourteeners. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company. Hart, J.L.J. (1977). Fourteen thousand feet: A history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks (Second Edition). Denver, CO: The Colorado Mountain Club. This mountain is one of a group of five Collegiate Peak 14ers in the south central Sawatch Range of the Colorado Rockies that also includes Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Oxford. On the south slope of Mount Princeton is a series of bluffs known as the Chalk Cliffs. The cliffs are not actually chalk, but rather crumbling quartz monzonite. The white cliffs inspired the Wheeler Geological Survey to give the mountain its original name, "Chalk Mountain." It is believed that the surveyor Henry Gannett named the mountain Mount Princeton sometime before 1873 (Hart, 1977, p. 19). |
