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Wolf Mountain is located in the Beartooth Mountains, which are a subset of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness , on land managed by Custer National Forest . Wolf Mountain ranks as the 35th-highest summit in Montana, [ 3 ] whereas the highest point in Montana, Granite Peak , rises five miles to the east.
Also in the Great Sioux War of 1876 the Davis Creek/Reno Creek Divide just at the northern border of the Wolf Mountain Range was the route along which the large Lakota Sioux/Northern Cheyenne encampment moved from Rosebud Creek to the Little Bighorn River on about June 15, 1876 leaving a trail followed later by Colonel George A. Custer leading ...
Rising Wolf Mountain - Mah-kwi-i-po-ats-ists (Wolf Rising Mountain), (9,513 feet (2,900 m)) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The peak is in the southeastern section of the park and rises dramatically above the Two Medicine region and more than 4,450 ft (1,360 m) above Two Medicine ...
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Hugh Monroe (1798-1892) was a Canadian trapper, guide, and interpreter. He worked for Hudson's Bay Company, American Fur Company, and independently throughout his life.He traveled with Chief Lone Walker of the Piikani Nation and was given the name "Rising Wolf" (Mah-kwi-i-po-ats – Wolf Rising), an ancestor of Lone Walker, with Rising Wolf Mountain later named after him.
The Wolf Mountains run from southwest to northeast. They force the Yellow River to turn from north to east. To the northwest is the Gobi Desert; to the southeast, between it and the Yellow River, is an irrigated area.