Alice Ramsey

by Sheri Sturdevant

In 1909 Alice Ramsey had a minor mishap in Fish Springs!

Utah Chub

by Sheri Sturdevant

I have explored this Wildlife Refuge and will draw and paint the area. I will visually share the wildlife and scenery in this relatively wild land.

Rabbit Tail

by Sheri Sturdevant

Rabbit-Tail, Shoshone member of Captain Ray's scout company; half-length, seated, with bracelets and ornamented vest. The Shoshone (also spelled Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with three large divisions: the Northern, the Western and the Eastern. He represents the Tribes that are, and have been a part of the Fish Springs area.

The Northern are concentrated in eastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and north-eastern Utah.

The Eastern lived in Wyoming, northern Colorado and Montana. Conflict with the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, and Cheyennes, and Arapahos pushed them south and westward after about 1750.

The Western ranged from central Idaho, northwestern Utah, central Nevada, and in California about Death Valley and Panamint Valley. This group is sometimes called the Panamint. The Idaho groups of Western Shoshone were called Tukuaduka (sheep eaters), while the Nevada/Utah groups were called the Gosiute (Goshute) or Toi Ticutta (cattail eaters). The estimated population of Norther and Western Shoshone was 4,500 in 1845. 3,650 Northern Shoshone and 1,201 Western Shoshone were counted in 1937 by the United States Office of Indian Affairs.