Original Antique Boudoir Photograph photo Famous SHOSHONE INDIAN CHIEF WASHAKIE

Description

ORIGINAL Boudoir PHOTO OF Famous Eastern Shoshone Chief Washakie. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION DESCRIPTION. SIZE IS 8.5" X 6.5". Great chance to own a great early piece of American History!!!
About Chief Washakie
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
. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger
, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie
(1851)
. Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshone
by the representatives of the United States government.
In 1979, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners
of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
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