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Crowheart
Butte
Location
of sign - U.S. 287 east of Burris in Wyoming.
Photo
taken May 2008
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Text
of sign:
Crowheart
Butte
In
March 1866, a battle was fought in the vicinity between Shoshone and Bannock
Indians on one side and Crow Indians on the
other.
The contest was waged for supremacy of hunting grounds in the Wind River
basin. Crowheart Butte was so named because
victorious
Washakie, chief of the Shoshones displayed a Crow Indians heart on his lance
at the war dance after the battle. The
major
portion of the battle was fought near Black Mountain several miles to the
north.
Washakie,
in his youth and middle age was a very mighty warrior. He was a wise
chief and friendly to the white people. No
white
mans scalp hung in this chief's teepee.
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