Cadotte Pass

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. Prior to his exploration Tribal people utilized the pass while migrating to the buffalo hunting plains around the Sun River. Isaac Stevens, List of [Governors of Washington|Governor] of Washington Territory, named the pass after Cadotte in 1853. The pass is above sea level.