SHOSHONE LAND 



plant has its perfect work. Noxious weeds 

 such as come up thickly in crowded fields 

 do not flourish in the free spaces. Live 

 long enough with an Indian, and he or 

 the wild things will show you a use for 

 everything that grows in these borders. 



The manner of the country makes the 

 usage of life there, and the land will not 

 be lived in except in its own fashion. The 

 Shoshones live like their trees, with great 

 spaces between, and in pairs and in family 

 groups they set up wattled huts by the in- 

 frequent springs. More wickiups than two 

 make a very great number. Their shelters 

 are lightly built, for they travel much and 

 far, following where deer feed and seeds 

 ripen, but they are not more lonely than 

 other creatures that inhabit there. 



The year's round is somewhat in this 

 fashion. After the pinon harvest the 



