_Schurz Mt._ (10,900)--N: 14--1885--U. S. G. S.--For Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior during President Hayes' administration. This name was first given by Colonel Norris to the prominent ridge on the west side of the Gibbon Cañon. _Sepulcher Mountain_ (9,500)--B-C: 5-6--The origin of this name is unknown. The following remarks concerning it are from the pen of Prof. Wm. H. Holmes:[CH] "Why this mountain received such a melancholy appellation I have not been able to discover. So far as I know, the most important thing buried beneath its dark mass is the secret of its structure. It is possible that the form suggested the name." [CH] Page 15, Twelfth Annual Report of Dr. Hayden. _Sheepeater Cliffs_ (7,500)--D: 7--1879--Norris--From the name of a tribe of Indians, the only known aboriginal occupants of what is now the Yellowstone Park. (See Chapter II, Part II.) It was upon one of the "ancient and but recently deserted, secluded, unknown haunts" of these Indians, that Colonel Norris, "in rapt astonishment," stumbled one day, and was so impressed by what he saw, that he gave the neighboring cliff its present name. He thus describes this retreat:[CI] "It is mainly carpeted with soft grass, dotted, fringed, and overhung with small pines, firs and cedars, and, with the subdued and mingled murmur of the rapids and cataracts above and below it, and the laughing ripple of the gliding stream, is truly an enchanting dell--a wind and storm sheltered refuge for the feeble remnant of a fading race." [CI] Page 10, Annual Report Superintendent of the Park for 1879. _Sheridan Mt._ (10,250)--P: 8--1871--Barlow--For Gen. P. H. Sheridan, who actively forwarded all the early exploring expeditions in this region, and, at a later day, twice visited the Park. His public warnings at this time of the danger to which the Park was exposed from vandals, poachers, and railroad promoters, and his vigorous appeal for its protection, had great influence in bringing about a more efficient and enlightened policy in regard to that reservation. (See "Mt. Everts.") _Signal Hills_ (9,500)--M: 12--1871--U. S. G. S.--A ridge extending back from Signal Point on the Yellowstone Lake. _Silver Tip Peak_ (10,400)--K: 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Specimen Ridge_ (8,700)--E: 11--Name known prior to 1870.--Characteristic. (See Chapter V, Part II.) _Stevenson, Mt._ (10,300)--M: 13--1871--U. S. G. S.--For James Stevenson, long prominently connected with the U. S. Geological Survey. "In honor of his great services not only during the past season, but for over twelve years of unremitting toil as my assistant, oftentimes without pecuniary reward, and with but little of the scientific recognition that usually comes to the original explorer, I have desired that one of the principal islands of the lake and one of the noble peaks reflected in its clear waters should bear his name forever."--Hayden.[CJ] [CJ] Page 5, Fifth Annual Report of Dr. Hayden.