Example Sentences

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Once, he tells you, this was the land of the Shoshones.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2018

You have to ford numerous rivers, and the Shoshones, Pawnees and Sioux, were extremely adept at helping the pioneers make these fords.

From National Geographic • Jul. 12, 2015

With unemployment on the reservation at 70 percent, the leases represent needed income for some of the 3,500 Eastern Shoshones and 9,600 Northern Arapahoes, he said.

From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2011

He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones.

From Time Magazine Archive

The men he met would be fugitives like himself, or prospectors, or wandering Shoshones; and, live or die, he would be away from it all–where he would never see Virginia again.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane