"Shoshones" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at him sharply, but he was gazing so innocently at the purple Shoshones in the distance that she could not give him the ...
— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine
... powerless in the hands of its owner. "You touch a woman with that thing and it hypnotizes her. She follow the guy and die if she don't go with him. I don't believe I ever heard of a Washo use one. We'd be too afraid. But them Paiutes and Shoshones use it." ...
— Washo Religion • James F. Downs
... I believe. Perhaps taking in the Shoshones. I am not certain. Our guide, Hi Lang, ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower
... two parallel rows of similar stones, between which were an arrow placed, touching the opposite rim of the circle, it would point as the crow flies to the spring. It is the old, indubitable water mark of the Shoshones. One still finds it in the desert ranges in Salt Wells and Mesquite valleys, and along the slopes of Waban. On the other side of Ceriso, where the black rock begins, about a mile from the spring, is the work of an older, forgotten people. The rock hereabout ...
— The Land Of Little Rain • Mary Hunter Austin
... There are the Shoshones proper and the Utes or Utahs, to which have been added by some authorities the Comanches, and Moquis of New Mexico and Arizona, the Netelas and other tribes of California. The Shoshone, wherever found, is clothed in buckskin and blanket in winter, but dressed more ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... to be a branch of the Sheep Eaters who afterwards intermarried with the Mountain Crows, a tall race of people who gave to the Shoshones a taller and better physique. From what can be gleaned, the Sheep Eater women were most beautiful, but resembled the Alaskan Indians in their ...
— The Sheep Eaters • William Alonzo Allen
... that followed he wandered farther and farther up among the rugged spurs of the Shoshones, and took possession as he went. He found the signboards of several Blackbears, and if they were small dead trees he sent them crashing to earth with a drive of his giant paw. If they were green, he put his own mark over the other mark, and made it clearer by slashing the bark with the ...
— The Biography of a Grizzly • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... the small war-party advancing cautiously, preceded far in advance on its flanks by watchful scouts. They were all eyes for any hunting bands of Utes or Shoshones and might see the Yellow-Eyes trooping along in a line as the ...
— The Way of an Indian • Frederic Remington |
