Pershing Geiger's statue of Chief Washakie in downtown Casper, Wyoming. Washakie was a renowned Eastern Shoshone warrior first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper Osborne Russell

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In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie. There, and several times subsequently, this fierce warrior signed treaties with whites. His tribe was later granted a favorable home on a reservation nearby rather than far away in alien lands. Later, though, the U.S. Government moved the vanquished Northern Arapaho tribe to the same Wind River area, creating the only Indian reservation shared by two tribes
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.