The Gibbon, Heart Lake, Lone Star, and Shoshone Geyser Basins are located away from the heavily traveled portions of the park.

As a result, band societies such as the Shoshone of the Great Basin came across as extraordinarily lazy to European colonialists.

The Dubois Museum preserves and interprets the natural and social history of the Upper Wind River Valley as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center focuses on public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the Whisky Basin of Whisky Mountain adjacent to the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest.

In 1897 and 1899 Cody and his associates acquired from the State of Wyoming the right to take water from the Shoshone River to irrigate about of land in the Big Horn Basin.

The tribes of the Great Basin, for the most part Shoshone, were severely impacted by the Oregon and California Trails and by Mormon emigration to Utah.

The Green and Big Sandy rivers drain southward from the west side of the range, while the Wind River drains eastward through the Shoshone Basin.

The range forms the boundary between the Bighorn Basin to the north and the Shoshone Basin to the south.

Around the turn of the 20th century the Bighorn Basin was settled by ranchers such as William " Buffalo Bill " Cody who founded the town of Cody and owned a great deal of land surrounding the Shoshone River.

The range runs approximately 100 mi ( 160 km ) E-W along the south side of the Shoshone Basin, and north of the Sweetwater River, in eastern Fremont County and western Natrona County.

With horses of Spanish origin, the Shoshone migrated into Montana from the Great Basin and hunted buffalo, becoming the dominant tribe in the area.

The Shoshone language is one of the Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by numerous peoples ranging from the Great Basin to coastal Southern California in present-day United States, and down through central, western and southern Mexico ; into Central America and South America.

Some historic examples include the Shoshone of the Great Basin in the United States, the Bushmen of southern Africa, the pygmies ( Mbuti ) of the Ituri Rainforest in Africa, and some groups of indigenous Australians.

( EthnoAdmin 2003 ) In 1931, Steward, pressed for money, began fieldwork on the Great Basin Shoshone under the auspices of Kroeber ’ s Culture Element Distribution ( CED ) survey ; in 1935 he received an appointment to the Smithsonian ’ s Bureau of American Ethnography ( BAE ), which published some of his most influential works.

The Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863.

Other well known Savage images include pictures of the Great Basin tribes, especially the Paiute and Shoshone.

He gathered a raiding band of warriors from Great Basin tribes, Paiute and Shoshone.

Tribes including the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Lakota, and Shoshone had cultural and geographical ties to the monolith before European and early American immigrants reached Wyoming.

They were accompanied by a fifteen-year-old Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, the wife of a French-Canadian fur trader.

The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact.

A number of stone enclosures on some of the peaks, including on the upper slopes of Grand Teton ( known simply as The Enclosure ) are thought to have been used by Shoshone during vision quests.

The land was treated by the United States as public domain ; no aboriginal title by the Northwestern Shoshone was ever recognized by the United States or extinguished by treaty with the United States.

Isolated from its county seat of Wallace in the Silver Valley, the southern portion of Shoshone County was annexed by Nez Perce County in 1904, then became Clearwater County in 1911.

They meant by this that those lands belonged to the Shoshone tribe headed by a man whose name was Inyo.

The roots were consumed by tribes such as the Shoshone and the Flathead Indians as an infrequent delicacy.

While Boise, Idaho, Nez Perce and Shoshone counties were organized under the laws of Washington Territory, they were not recognized by the Idaho Territory until February 1864.

Shoshone was founded in 1910 by Ralph Jacobus " Dad " Fairbanks, a Death Valley businessman.

In the state legislature Shoshone is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican Roy Ashburn, and in the 34th Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Maze.

Federally, Shoshone is located in California's 25th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 7 and is represented by Republican Buck McKeon.

Moreno Valley was originally inhabited by hunter-gatherer Native Americans of the Shoshone tribe.

It is popularly believed, as cited by the Kuna Chamber of Commerce, that the translation of the name " Kuna " means " the end of the trail ", but Charles S. Walgamott cites the origin of the name as a Shoshone Indian word meaning " green leaf, good to smoke " ( see " Six Decades Back ", a memoir of Walgamott's adventures in the late 1800s in southern Idaho ).

The area of Grace was once inhabited by the Shoshone Indians.

Present-day Clearwater County, formed in 1911, was part of Shoshone County until 1904, when it was annexed by Nez Perce County.

Shoshone Falls is taller than Niagara Falls by about 36 feet ( 58 meters ).

In 1884, an effort to move the Western Shoshone to the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho ( and open up Duck Valley lands for non-Indian homesteads ) was successfully resisted by the headmen of the bands.

Its name was given to it by its founder, Jim Butler, and it is thought to be a Shoshone Indian word, pronounced " TOE-nuh-pah.

The area was originally used as hunting territory by the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Shoshone tribes.

Before being permanently settled by Mormon pioneers in 1848, the area where Murray City is presently located was a natural area that served as the seasonal home of Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock Native American tribes who camped along local creek banks and stream beds during their migrations.

Apart from Comanche, each of these groups contains one language spoken in a small area in the southern Sierra Nevada and valleys to the east ( Mono, Timbisha, and Kawaiisu ), and one language spoken in a much larger area extending to the north and east ( Northern Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute-Southern Paiute ).

In the days before refrigeration, this feature, coupled with the railroad, made Shoshone popular with travelers as " the only place for hundreds of miles where one could get a cold beer.

Today, Shoshone still has one bar, but also boasts a cafe, a movie theater, and a grocery store — unusual for such a small town.

The other two are west of town ; one allows access to the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park, and the other is used by fishermen in Shoshone Canyon and as access to the Buffalo Bill Dam.

The Shoshone Project became one of the first federal water development projects undertaken by the newly formed Reclamation Service, later to become known as the Bureau of Reclamation.

The cutoff was created to reduce the possibility of ambush by Shoshone warriors along the Snake River such as the one that occurred at Massacre Rocks, which today is memorialized in Idaho's Massacre Rocks State Park.

Then on 24 August, when Lewis had gotten the expedition started toward Lemhi Pass, a Shoshone rode up from the rear of the column to inform Lewis that one of his men was sick.

Mrs. Moss visualized a statue similar to one she had seen in Oregon of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their search for a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

Laramie Plains in the 19th century was not occupied by any one tribe but instead utilized by the Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux, Eastern Shoshone, and White River Utes.

She fought in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, and also fought the Shoshone that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another.