William Henry Holmes

William Henry Holmes (1846 to 1933), known as W. H. Holmes, was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, geologist and museum curator and director, who was also a noted mountain climber. Born on a farm near Cadiz in Harrison County, Ohio, he illustrated Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District in 1882, and his panorama of the Grand Canyon from Point Sublime is regarded as a masterpiece of American scientific illustration. From 1875 he studied the remains of the Ancestral Pueblo culture in the San Juan River region of Utah. Two summits bear his name, Mount Holmes in Yellowstone National Park and Mount Holmes in the Henry Mountains of Utah. He is listed here for his mountaineering, not as a competitive athlete.