Cadotte Pass

{{Short description|Mountain pass in Montana, United States}}

{{Infobox mountain pass

| name = Cadotte Pass

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| elevation_ft = 6073

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| location = Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States

| range = Rocky Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|47|05|58|N|112|23|37|W|type:pass_region:US}}

| topo = USGS Cadotte Pass (MT)

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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.{{cite book|last=Stevens|first=Isaac I.|title=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|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Beverly Tucker, Printer|date=1855|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LshOAAAAcAAJ|page=27}} Prior to his exploration Tribal people utilized the pass while migrating to the buffalo hunting plains around the Sun River.{{cite book|last=SPCC |first=CSKT |title=The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition |location=Lincoln, Neb.|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=2008|isbn=9780803216433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbExZ5YqpgwC&pg=PP1}} Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, named the pass after Cadotte in 1853.{{cite book|last=Thrapp|first=Dan L.|title=Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography|location=Lincoln, Neb.|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=1988|isbn=9780803294172|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXP58ROs8mgC|page=209}} The pass is {{convert|6073|ft|m}} above sea level.{{cite gnis |id=800531 |name=Cadotte Pass}}