It is doubtful that they predated this time, given the fact that buffalo hunting on horse was one of the main attractions of eastern Idaho.
"Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society"
Robert F. Murphy Yolanda Murphy
Muslim though he was, he had visited this monastery many times, to study the ancient Christian books which lay in disordered heaps in an ill-kept chamber, books which predated the Hegira, and were as near to the life of the Early Church as the Scriptures themselves-or were so reputed.
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Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 14, 2009