Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogTranscripth I have made is necessary for the sake of hi The chart onames w clearness. I shall give and interpret the authorities and attempt to explain the discrepancies. c the San Luis valley in 1853, crossed a i l ' ng up e go s party, w Gunnison creek "Trois Tetons, deriving its name from the peaks whence it descends". The only maps showing Trois Tetons Creek are those of the land office surveys of 1863 and 1892. On them the creek descends from the mountain "Les Trois Tetons", which is inside the Baca Grant and therefore cannot be the present Crestone Peak (A) which is shown outside the Baca Grant on all maps showing both it and the Baca Grant, such as the Colorado State Survey map and the map of San Isabel National Forest. From the location of this "Trois Tetons" in regard to the Baca Grant boundaries, the town of Crestone and the creeks of the region, it must be the present Kit Carson (B). This gives the present Kit Carson (B) a prior right to the name Trois Tetons and its successor Crestone; but all the surveys, as I shall show, gave Crestone to the highest point (A), and therefore (B) must be content with its present name. The peak is again mentioned in 1873 by Professor John L. Stevenson,-"great mountains of trachyte standing out separate from the Sangre de Cristo and forming, as it were, a spur. These are the Tetons." This must be the present Kit Carsjft'B), because it forms "as it were, a spur" and the present Crestone -Beckwith's report, 33rd Congress, 2nd Session ,!4adz P% It:. es not. xecutive Docutgsnt. 8,-volume if. [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet: a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks." Denver, Colorado Mountain Club, 1925]CollectionWestern History Subject IndexRelated MaterialWestern History Subject Index AbbreviationsType of MaterialIndex CardLanguageeng
