Heart Mountain was originally named by the Apsáalooke (or the Crow Nation in English) for resembling a buffalo heart. The limestone summit is almost 300 million years older than the rocks at the base, but geologists have found no explanation as to how this occured. The mountain is also one of the few recognizable features on the maps created by Lewis and Clark. In August 1942, the United States government relocated over 13,000 Japanese-Americans from California to an internment camp named after the mountain, creating Wyoming’s third-largest city almost overnight….
