One day Sleeping Lady’s husband was called to war. Sleeping lady’s husband was 9 feet tall and weighed 300 pounds. Sleeping lady’s husband’s name is Durante.  Sleeping lady is 8 feet tall and weighed 225 pounds. Durante went to town to get a musket and then Durante went home. The next day Durante went to war. Days passed Sleeping Lady layed down. She covered up with a blanket of snow and waited and waited. But Durante died in battle. Sleeping lady died while she was waiting. That’s how the mountain was formed and named.