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Square Butte (Montana)
Square Butte is a name used for 11 buttes in Montana. Two of the most prominent buttes are located in a) Cascade County, Montana, about due west of Great Falls and in b) Chouteau County, Montana, about due east of Great Falls and about due east of the Highwood Mountains. Charles Marion Russell, the noted Montana western artist used both features as background in his paintings of Montana.
==Square Butte in Cascade County==
Square Butte in Cascade County, Montana, is located about due west of the city of Great Falls, Montana. The highest elevation of the Cascade County Square Butte is 〔
Square Butte is easily visible for many miles around. It is a prominent feature on the northern skyline as a motorist travels along Interstate 15, west of Great Falls in the vicinity of mile marker 264. It is also visible on the southern skyline while traveling on Montana Highway 200 in the vicinity of Sun River and Fort Shaw.〔Highway views of this Square Butte may be observed by utilizing the "Street View" feature of Google Earth, from vantage points on the described highway.〕 To the west of Square Butte is another topographic feature, Crown Butte.
Lewis and Clark Pass crosses the continental divide at the crest of the Northern Rocky Mountains which lie to the west of the Cascade County Square Butte. From that pass on July 7, 1806 the explorer Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806) returning eastward from his journey to the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, saw Square Butte on the skyline of the eastern Montana prairie stating in his journal:"2 m. passing the dividing ridge between the waters of the Columbia and Missouri rivers at 1/4 of a mile (and Clark Pass ). from this gap which is low and an easy ascent on the W. side, the fort mountain (Butte ) bears North Eaast, and appears to be distant about 20 miles." From that pass on a clear day, the Cascade County Square Butte can still be seen, not at the 20 miles reported by Meriwether Lewis but about out in the eastern Montana grasslands.
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