Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shoshones \Sho*sho"nes\, n. pl.; sing. {Shoshone}. (Ethnol.)
   A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians,
   comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho
   into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied
   especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.