Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860.
Fairchild discovered gold in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later.
[1] The highest point of the range is 9,803-foot Caribou Mountain.
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