Mount Blackmore

Mount Blackmore is located in Gallatin National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana. Bozeman is located near the East [Gallatin River], Gallatin County, Mount Blackmore is south of the City of Bozeman in the Gallatin Range.
Ferdinand [Vandeveer Hayden]'s survey expedition of the Yellowstone area named the peak for Mary Blackmore, wife of William [Henry Blackmore|William Blackmore], an English land speculator and philanthropist who accompanied the Hayden Survey. Mary Blackmore contracted pneumonia and died in Bozeman, Montana during the early summer of 1872.