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Cadotte Pass

Cadotte Pass

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Cadotte Pass, known in the mid to late 1800s as Cadotte's Pass, is a pass in the Rocky Mountains located on the Continental Divide in the U.S. state of Montana. Pierre Cadotte, a white settler at Fort Benton, Montana, explored the pass in 1851.[1] Prior to his exploration Tribal people utilized the pass while migrating to the buffalo hunting plains around the Sun River.[2] Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, named the pass after Cadotte in 1853.[3] The pass is 6,073 feet (1,851 m) above sea level.[4]

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  1. [1]
    Stevens, Isaac I. (1855). Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: Beverly Tucker, Printer. p. 27.
  2. [2]
    SPCC, CSKT (2008). The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803216433.
  3. [3]
    Thrapp, Dan L. (1988). Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780803294172.
  4. [4]
    "Cadotte Pass". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.


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