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Washakie holding a pipe. Washakie (c.1804 /1810 – February 20, 1900) was a prominent leader of the Shoshone people during the mid-19th century. He was first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell.
Washakie (born c. 1804, Montana—died February 20, 1900, Fort Washakie, Wyoming, U.S.) was a Shoshone chief who performed extraordinary acts of friendship for white settlers while exhibiting tremendous prowess as a warrior against his people’s tribal enemies.
The earliest photos of Washakie are probably those taken by Savage, who operated a studio in Salt Lake City in the 1860s. Jackson first encountered Washakie and the Eastern Shoshones when he joined the Hayden Geological Survey in 1870 and photographed a large Shoshone encampment at South Pass.
Apr 12, 2023 · On September 7, 2000, Wyoming selected Chief Washakie to represent the people of Wyoming. Born in the early 1800s, Chief Washakie earned a reputation that lives on to this day—a fierce warrior, skilled politician and diplomat and great Shoshone leader.
From his birth in the Bitterroot Mountains among the Salish Tribe, to his exploits as a warrior with the Lemhi Shoshone and Bannocks, Washakie was recognized early as an extraordinary person. But...
Washakie (1804-1900) was a Shoshoni tibal leader who helped passengers westward and remained friends with mountain men and trappers. An ally of the white fur trappers, traders, immigrants, and the U.S. government, Chief Washakie and the Eastern Shoshonis were instrumental in assisting the Anglo-Americans in settling the western United States .
The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshoni leader.
