DCHP-3

Indian pass

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mountain pass used by the Indians.

Quotations

1873
The full importance of this Indian pass, as a highway to the Pacific through the Rocky Mountans, will be easily understood.
1963
Rumours of good Indian passes were none the less persistent, and in 1848 Palliser had met 'a . . . half-breed gentleman' from Red River, James Sinclair, who had already crossed the mountains at least once with a party of emigrants from the Red River to the Columbia River.