Editing Absaroka Range (section)

==History==
The range is named after the [[Crow Nation|Absaroka]] Native People.<ref name=gannett/> The name is derived from the [[Hidatsa language|Hidatsa]] name for the [[Crow people]]; it means "children of the large-beaked bird."<ref>{{cite book|title=Montana Place Names: From Alzada To Zortman |publisher=Montana Historical Society Press| year=2009 |page=2| isbn=9780975919613}}</ref> (In contrast, the Crow name, ''Awaxaawe Báaxxioo'', means "Pointed Mountains [Like Sand Castles].")<ref name=LBHC/>

[[John Colter]], who may have been the first white person to visit the area,<ref name="Harris1993"/> probably traveled along the foot of the Absarokas in 1807 during his reconnaissance of the Yellowstone region.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/grte1/index.htm |chapter-url=http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/grte1/chap3.htm|title=Colter's Hell and Jackson's Hole |chapter=III. John Colter, The Phantom Explorer—1807-1808 |last=Mattes |first=Merrill J.|year=1962 |publisher= Yellowstone Library and Museum Association & Grand Teton Natural History Association}}</ref> Early explorers also included [[Gustavus Cheyney Doane]] and [[Nathaniel P. Langford]], who climbed the summit of [[Colter Peak]] in 1870.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Langford|first1=Nathaniel Pitt|title=Diary of the Washburn expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole rivers in the year 1870|date=1905|url=https://archive.org/details/diaryofwashburne00langrich|access-date=28 July 2015}}</ref>

The proposed state of [[Absaroka (proposed state)|Absaroka]] shared the same age with the mountain range.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Frank |date=July 23, 2010 |title=Absaroka, a State of Rebellion Against FDR's New Deal |url=https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/301-look-at-the-state-youre-in-absaroka/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=Big Think |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Nate |title=The State of Absaroka |url=http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/absaroka |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.southdakotamagazine.com}}</ref> The [[USS Absaroka (1917)|USS ''Absaroka'']] was named after this mountain range.