Editing Washakie County, Wyoming (section)

==History==
Washakie County was created on February 21, 1911, as Hanover County with land detached from [[Big Horn County, Wyoming|Big Horn County]] and organized in 1913.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004 |editor-last=Long |editor-first=John H. |title=Wyoming: Individual County Chronologies |url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803014725/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |archive-date=August 3, 2015 |access-date=August 19, 2015 |website=Wyoming Atlas of Historical County Boundaries |publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]}}</ref> The bill for creating the county initially named it "Hanover County", but it was renamed before the bill passed to Washakie County for the head chief of the [[Shoshone]] people, Chief [[Washakie]], who became an ally of the US Government.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 25, 1911 |title=Name of New County Changed |url=https://wyomingnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=WYLRS19110125-01&e=--1911---1912--en-20--1--img-txIN--------0------ |access-date=February 16, 2022 |work=The Laramie Republican |page=7 |via=Wyoming Newspapers}}</ref>