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The Kicking Horse River is in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. [2] The river was named in 1858, when James Hector , a member of the Palliser Expedition , reported being kicked by his packhorse while exploring the river.
His companions, thinking him dead, dug a grave for him and prepared to put him in. His premature burial was cancelled when he regained consciousness. The pass and nearby river have been known since as Kicking Horse Pass and Kicking Horse River. [4] The legend of the kicking horse is now firmly established in popular Canadian history.
First Nations had known and used the pass, but it was first explored by Europeans in 1858 by the Palliser Expedition led by Captain John Palliser.It and the adjacent Kicking Horse River were named after James Hector (Hector's Branch Expeditions, 3 August 1858 – 26 May 1859), was kicked by his horse while attempting rescue of another horse that had gone into the river.
Kicking Horse may refer to: Kicking Horse River in the Canadian Rockies, southeastern British Columbia, Canada Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, named after the canyon; Kicking Horse Pass in the Canadian Rockies; Kicking Horse, Montana, a census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States
Precipitation runoff from Mount Ogden drains west into the Yoho River and east into Sherbrooke Creek, which are both tributaries of the Kicking Horse River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over 1,300 meters (4,265 feet) above Yoho Valley in two kilometers (1.2 mile).
The Amiskwi River is the longest tributary of the Kicking Horse River, beginning at Amiskwi Pass [2] and flowing south for about 20 kilometres (12 mi) then southeast for about 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) until its confluence with the Kicking Horse River at almost exactly the same location as the mouth of the Emerald River.
Mount Vaux is a 3,310-metre (10,860-foot) mountain summit located in the Kicking Horse River valley of Yoho National Park, in the Ottertail Range of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Goodsir , 11.0 km (6.8 mi) to the southeast. [ 1 ]
After following the Continental Divide of the Americas for a short distance, the creek forks, with one side draining through the Bow River east to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and the other side draining west to the Pacific Ocean by way of the Kicking Horse River.