The SHOSHONE
Drawings of the Lemhi Shoshone with dogs. |
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Sheep Hunter |
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Pulling Travois |
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Lemhi Shoshone hunter with dog. |
The Lemhi Shoshone were discovered in the mid 1800's as still using dogs for utility work and beasts of burden...no horses were owned by these people. Each family had upwards of 30 dogs each. The majority of the Lemhi had been killed off by European disease and only a handful of these Shoshones' remained. The Lemhi loved their dogs so much that when a family member died their favorite dog was killed and buried with the individual.
In the
early 19th century the Shoshone occupied
See V. C.
Trenholm and M. Carley, The Shoshonis, Sentinels of the