The Shoshones by Liz Sonneborn, Native American Histories, Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minn., 2007.
This book actually gives a very accurate description of the Shoshone. I like reading about the Shoshone because I lived amongst the Western Shoshone for a couple of years. The book starts talking of the Western Shoshone but then loses them in the last couple of chapters. I noticed the consultants for the book were both of the Eastern Shoshone.
There is a good map that describes the homeland of the Shoshone, the Western Shoshone went from easter Utah, through Nevada and into California. Northern Shoshone occupied northern Utah and much of southern Idaho. Their major reservation is now Fort Hall which is shared with the Bannock. The Eastern Shoshone include most of western Wyoming. They were granted reservation land along the Wind River under Chief Washakie.
The western Shoshone traditionally had the harder life. Food supplies were lest plentiful in the great Basin desert. There was the possibility of catching large game, but mostly small game such as squirrels and rabbits were most plentiful. They would also gather pine nuts, and often their winter food supply depended on how much pinyon pine nuts they could find in the autumn. Beading and basket making were also products which could be traded or enjoyed.
This book also mentions Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacagawea was from the northern Shoshone groups. There is the story of the Dann sisters of the Te Moak band of the Western Shoshone. They were suing the federal government when I lived amongst the Shoshone. They were trying to pursue grazing rights which was restricted by the BLM.