Скачать или смотреть 🏹 c. 1840 | Shoshone Bison Hunters (Grand Tetons, modern Wyoming)

What you’re seeing:
Two Eastern Shoshone (a Native American people of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains) riding across the sagebrush plains near the Teton Range while tracking bison. The setting is inspired by western Wyoming’s valley-and-mountain corridors, where people traveled seasonally between high country and open plains.

How they hunted:
Before horses were widespread on the Plains, many communities hunted bison on foot using large communal methods like buffalo jumps and impounds. After horses spread north, mounted hunting became common on the Plains, with hunters riding close and shooting arrows into the animal’s side at very short range.

Why bison mattered:
For many Native nations across the Plains and the Rocky Mountain West, bison were a foundation of life, not just food. Meat fed families, hides became tipi covers, clothing, and bedding, sinew became thread and bowstring, bones became tools, and fat was used for cooking and preservation. Because so much came from one animal, hunts were often tied to seasonal planning, trade, and ceremony, and wasting a kill carried real social and spiritual weight in many communities.

Where they lived:
Shoshone bands moved widely across the Rocky Mountain West. In the 1800s, the Eastern Shoshone centered their homeland around the Wind River region of Wyoming while continuing seasonal travel tied to game, weather, and trade routes.

What happened to them:
In the 1860s, the U.S. government negotiated treaties with the Eastern Shoshone that pushed them toward a permanent home on what became the Wind River Reservation, associated with Chief Washakie’s leadership. In the late 1800s, commercial hide hunting and U.S. expansion devastated bison populations across the West, reshaping food systems and power on the Plains.

Discrepancies:

Clothing is a bit too uniform “classic buckskin.” Real 1800s dress often mixed hides with trade cloth, wool blankets/robes, repairs, and personal beadwork.

Bison were part of the wider western Wyoming / Greater Yellowstone landscape in the 1800s, but sources don’t let us pin down the size or consistency of herds in Jackson Hole specifically. Treat this as a Teton-front recreation rather than a verified snapshot of a particular 1840 herd.

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