Allen Mountain () is located in the
Lewis Range
The Lewis Range is a mountain range located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Montana, United States and extreme southern Alberta, Canada. It was formed as a result of the Lewis Overthrust, a geologic thrust fault resulted in the overlying of y ...
,
Glacier National Park in the
U.S. state
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of
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
.
Allen Mountain is NNW of
Cracker Lake
Cracker Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Located at the head of a canyon, the waters of Cracker Lake are an opaque turquoise from rock flour (silt) originating from Siyeh Glacier. To the south of Cracker La ...
. The mountain is named to honor Cornelia Seward Allen, the granddaughter of President
Abraham Lincoln
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's
Secretary of State William H. Seward Sr. The mountain was named in 1891 by a party of explorers headed by
George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880 ...
that included Cornelia's brother, William Henry Seward III, a
Yale University
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classmate of Grinnell.
See also
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Gallery
File:Allen Mountain.jpg, Allen Mountain's northeast aspect reflected in Lake Sherburne
File:Sherburne in Spring.jpg, Allen in Spring
File:Grinnell Lake.jpg, West aspect above Grinnell Lake
File:Grinnell Lake, Allen Mountain.jpg, West aspect above Grinnell Lake
References
Mountains of Glacier County, Montana
Mountains of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Lewis Range
Mountains of Montana
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