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By the way, there is also an
interesting story about Idaho. Apparently congress decreed that the border
between Idaho and Montana was to be the continental divide. So the surveyers
started at Yellowstone Park, mapping out the border, but at “Lost Trail Pass”
they made a mistake and took a false divide. They continued along the false
divide for several hundred miles until they crossed over a ridge and saw the
Clark Fork River cutting right across what they thought was the divide. At
this point, they just gave up and took the rest of the border straight north
to Canada. So those of you who come from Kalispell and Missoula Montana
should really be Idahonians.
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