Frenchman Hills Explained

The Frenchman Hills are hills in Grant County, Washington, United States of America. The high point is 1640feet.^[1] They are an anticlinal fold in the northeastern part of the larger Yakima Fold Belt. They likely take their name for one of the first non-native residents in the area, who lived near Low Gap in the 1860s and 1870s and was known only as The Frenchman.^[2]

Frenchman Gap

Frenchman Gap near Vantage, Washington is a water gap where the Columbia River carved a path through the Frenchman Hills.

Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies, also known as the Wild Horse Monument, is located on a hillside overlooking the Columbia River on the east side of Frenchman Gap.

Notes and References

1. 1505040 . Frenchman Hills.
2. Web site: Allread . Ellis Wayne . Mid-Twentieth Century Pioneering of the Royal Slope of Central Washington Washington . Central Washington University . 22 October 2021 . 5 . Spring 1996.