Cadotte Pass

Cadotte Pass
Elevation	6,073 ft (1,851 m)
Location	Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States
Range	Rocky Mountains
Coordinates	47°05′58″N112°23′37″W / 47.09944°N 112.39361°W / 47.09944; -112.39361
Topo map	USGS Cadotte Pass (MT)

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]

See also

• List of mountain passes in Montana

Cited references

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. SPCC, CSKT (2008). The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9780803216433.
3. Thrapp, Dan L. (1988). Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. p. 209. ISBN   9780803294172.
4. "Cadotte Pass". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.