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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Ts servants in 1843.14 Lewis and Clarke Pass, in 47° 5, and Cadotte Passare close together and virtually the same. By asmall branch they lead from the main Missouri south-west, on two different sides of a hill, to the Blackfootbranch of Clarke fork. It was first explored by Clarkeon his way east from the Lewis and Clarke expedi-tion in 1806. Mullan Pass, in latitude 46° 30, nearHelena, Montana, leads from the Little Pricklybranch of the Missouri south-west to the Hellgatetributary of Clarke fork. Mullan constructed a wagonroad through it from the navigable waters of theMissouri at Fort Benton to those of the Columbia atWalla Walla in 1858-62. The Hellgate Pass is nearit, a little farther south; while Deer Lodge Pass, alsoin the same vicinity, leads from the extreme source ofthe same stream, in latitude 46°, to Divide Creek andFish Creek, tributaries of the Jefferson fork of theMissouri. 13 Wild North Land, 352.14Dunns Or., 348. IN THE UNITED STATES. 629
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Passes between Latitude 49° and 32°. 630 PASSES AND ROUTES. From the South Platte River at Julesburg, nowtapped by the Union Pacific Railway, there is an oldmilitary road which follows the Oregon emigrant routealong* the North Platte north-west to Fort Laramie,where it branches off and continues along the base ofthe mountains to forts Fetterman, Reno, and Kearney,and to Fort Smith, in the Yellowstone basin. Itascends the Yellowstone and crosses over to Bozeman,and the mountain park of the Missouri, by the Boze-man or Yellowstone Pass through the broken easternflange of the plateau, in latitude 45° 45, connectingby way of Gallatin, in the Upper Missouri Valley,with Mull an Pass, at Helena, beyond the continentalAvater-shed. Big Hole Mountain Pass, in latitude 45° 38, leadingfrom the Big Hole or Wisdom branch of the Missourinorth-west to the extreme source of the Bitter Rootor Clarke fork of the Columbia, was the routetravelled by Lewis on his back-track from Oregon in1806, and was

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