SHOSHONE LAND 



erly tribe ; but that is the word they will be 

 called by, and there is no greater offense 

 than to call an Indian out of his name. 

 According to their traditions and all proper 

 evidence, they were a great people occu- 

 pying far north and east of their present 

 bounds, driven thence by the Paiutes. Be- 

 tween the two tribes is the residuum of old 

 hostilities. 



Winnenap', whose memory ran to the 

 time when the boundary of the Paiute coun- 

 try was a dead-line to Shoshones, told me 

 once how himself and another lad, in an 

 unforgotten spring, discovered a nesting 

 place of buzzards a bit of a way beyond the 

 borders. And they two burned to rob those 

 nests. Oh, for no purpose at all except as 

 boys rob nests immemorially, for the fun 

 of it, to have and handle and show to other 

 lads as an exceeding treasure, and after- 

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