Washoe county i Nevada

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Washoe County är ett administrativt område i delstaten Nevada, USA. År 2010 hade countyt 421 407 invånare. Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är Reno. Den årligt återkommande Burning Man-festivalen anordnas i Black Rock Desert norr om Reno.

Washoe County was created on November 25, 1861, as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory. It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area. It was consolidated with Roop County in 1864. Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871.

Washoe County is the setting of the 1965 episode ”The Wild West's Biggest Train Holdup” of the syndicated western television series, Death Valley Days. In the story line, deputy Jim Brand (Charles Bateman) places a locked chain on a Central Pacific Railroad engine until the company agrees to pay its tax assessment. Roy Barcroft played the aging Sheriff Jackson with Pat Priest as his daughter, N Brand.

In 1911, a small group of Bannock lead by Mike_Daggett killed four ranchers in Washoe County. A posse was formed, and on February 26, 1911, they caught up with the band, and eight of them were killed, along with one member of the posse, Ed Hogle. Three children and a woman who survived the battle were captured. The remains of some of the members of the band were repatriated from the Smithsonian Institution to the Fort Hall Idaho Shoshone-Bannock Tribe in 1994.

In 1918, Washoe County elected the first woman elected to the Nevada Legislature, Sadie Hurst, a Republican.

”For decades Paiute children growing up in northern Nevada were required by the federal government to attend a boarding school in Carson City where they learned English, not Paiute.”

As of 2013, ”Washoe County is the first school district in the state to offer Paiute classes,” offering an elective course in the Paiute language at Spanish Springs High School and North Valleys High School.