The creek is named after Jack Crandall, a roaming prospector, who traveled extensively in the area. While enroute with a partner to a rendezvous to meet several prospectors' friends at the headwaters of the Clarks Fork, they were attacked and murdered at their camp while eating by a marauding band of Indians. Their heads were found severed and stuck on one end of their picks with the other end in the ground. The cups belonging to the men had been placed in front of their spitted heads. Their bodies were not found until the following year. This happened near the mouth of Crandall Creek on the east bank. Through the generosity of Caroline Lockhart, a bronze plaque was mounted on a large boulder to mark the graves of these hardy mountaineers. (WPA)
Other Names:
Marble Creek, Timber Creek
County:
Park
Feature Category:
Water Features
Description:
Stream, 11 miles long, heads at the junction of Closed and Timber Creeks ... flows E to Clarks Fork Yellowstone River, 3.5 miles ESE of Hunter Peak and 35 miles NW of Cody. (Decisions, 1971)
