Name: Togwotee Pass

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1100448W

Latitude: 434500N

 

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Elevation: 9655/2943

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Gap

 

Origin of Name:

Pass with an elevation of about 9,650 feet, crossing the Continental Divide at the head of the Wind River and at the north end of the Wind River Range; it is on the boundary between Shoshone National Forest and Teton National Forest.

Source: Decisions, 1950 

 

Named for the Sheep Eater Indians, a mountain Shoshone tribe; means "shoots with a spear, arrow or gun." A second version is that an Indian guide named "Togwotee" escorted President Arthur and his party through Yellowstone National Park in 1883.  

Source: WPA

 

A Shoshone word, Tog-Wo-Tee has been translated "Goes (or sees) from this place," and also, "Shoots with a spear (arrow, gun)." Captain William A. Jones of the Engineering Corps, U.S.A., reported that he named the pass in 1873 for Lance Striker, a Shoshone guide.

Source: Wyoming Guide

 

The discovery of Togwotee Pass, at the head of Wind River, is pregnant with results to the future commerce of the West and Northwest, as it discloses in all probability one of the principal highways that will in the future bind their interests with those of the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic States. ... I have named it Togwotee Pass, preferring to attach easy Indian names whereever possible to the prominent features of the country.

Source: Jones  

 

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Alternative Spellings: Two-Gwo-Tee-e Pass, Twogwotee Pass

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Togwotee Pass

 

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