how far is gardiner from yellowstone Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/how-far-is-gardiner-from-yellowstone Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:49:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Yellowstone Gardiner or Gardner? http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-gardiner-gardner.html http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-gardiner-gardner.html#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2016 01:04:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=207241 Why do we spell the names differently for a town and a river in the same vicinity? The river was named in the 1830s for Johnson Gardner, a rough and illiterate trapper. After 1870, the spelling on maps was Gardiner, probably the result of a mispronunciation. Since 1959, the ocial spelling for the river has eliminated the i to conform to earliest usage. The post oce at Gardiner, established in 1880, took its name from the stream. Sometimes mail consigned to the postmaster and unocial mayor was addressed simply to Jim on the Gardiner. The town ocials have never seen

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