Mount Harvard

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1873

A view looking south on the Arkansas River, from a bluff 1,000 feet high, opposite the mouth of Clear Creek. Mount Harvard, lying in the range west of the Arkansas, and latitude 38°.45, has an elevation of 14,384 feet, the highest in the Rocky Mountains within the limits of the United States. It was named by Prof. J. D. Whitney, who visited this region in 1869, in honor of the well-known seat of learning in New England. In the distance beyond are the spurs of Yale, its summit being obscured by a mass of clouds. At the base of Harvard is a splendid exhibition of enormous glacial action, in the great lateral moraines that sweep down to the bank of the river. (Jackson, 1875)