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The New International Encyclopædia/Bridger's Pass

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1971621The New International Encyclopædia — Bridger's Pass

BRIDG′ER'S PASS. An elevated defile in the Rocky Mountains, in southern Wyoming, through which the overland stages went before the opening of the Pacific Railroad. It is several miles long, and in most places has almost perpendicular side walls from 1000 to 2500 feet high.