Eastern Mojave Vegetation Shoshone, Inyo County, California.
 
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The name was applied to this place when the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was built shortly after 1900. The post office is listed in 1915. It apparently is the only place in California named for the widespread family of Shoshonean Indians.

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Date and time this article was prepared:9:48:29 AM, 8/24/2008