Fort Washakie

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Headstone of Chief Washakie near the fort

Fort Washakie was a continuation of the US Army in what is now the US state of Wyoming . The fort was first established as Camp Augur in 1869 , named after General Christopher C. Augur , commander of the Department of the Platte . In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Frederick H. Brown , who was killed in the Fetterman Battle in 1866 . It was named after Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe in 1878 and was the only US military outpost to be named after a Native American. The fort remained a military outpost until its closure in 1909, when it was transferred to the Shoshone Indian Agency . At the bottom of the fort are the tombs of Washakie and Sacajawea , who provided valuable assistance on the Lewis and Clark expedition . The facility is located within what is now the Wind River Indian Reservation .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fort Washakie - From Wyoming Tales and Trails ( English ) wyomingtalesandtrails.com. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Herbard, Grace Raymond: Marking the Oregon Trail, the Bozeman Road and historic places in Wyoming 1908-1920 . S. 10 (English).

Coordinates: 43 ° 0 ′ 23 "  N , 108 ° 52 ′ 56"  W.