Washakie

The Wind River country lies between the high Rockies and the open basins of western Wyoming. It was used by Shoshone communities who hunted bison and travelled across the mountains to trade. In the 1820s, fur traders began holding gatherings on the Green River and its tributaries, meeting Indigenous trading partners there. Among the Shoshone of this wider country was Washakie, who spent part of his youth with the Bannock before returning to the Shoshone around the late 1820s or early 1830s.