Samuel Hitt Elbert Edward Moody McCook, was reappointed Governor. Samuel Elbert was appointed to the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado in 1877 where he served until 1889. Elbert served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1879 to 1883. Samuel Elbert died on November 27, 1899. Elbert County, Colorado; Elbert, Colorado; and Mount Elbert, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains, are named in honor of Samuel Hitt Elbert. Grateful miners named Mount Elbert after the governor because he brokered a treaty with the Ute tribe, which opened up more than of Indian reservation to mining and railroad activity.
Bare Mountain Range (Nevada) the Amargosa Valley along the south edge of the range and turns at Beatty to continue north through Oasis Valley. The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain, of the same name, at . In the southeast of the range, Wildcat Peak rises to Bare Mountain Range was descriptively named for the bare summits. Bare Mountain Range (Nevada) The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range. The Bare Mountain Range is a short range, about long, trending northwest