Yes, they had horses. Horses were considered very valuable to the tribes and a form of wealth.
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The Shoshone Indians live in several different places. The tribe was spread out. They live in Wyoming, Idaho, California, Montana, Utah, and Nevada.
The Crow got their first horses from the Plains Shoshone around the year 1740. The Shoshone got their horses from the Comanche about twenty years earlier, and the Comanche got them from the Spanish in west Texas in the late 1600's.
They played many of the same games any other kid would play - some examples include foot racing and ball games (they had one called shinny). Boys also played hunting games and raced their horses.
The Shoshone were originally a large tribe that covered a large area of the plains. One of their offshoot tribes is the Comanche tribe, and they were one of the last hold-out tribes to fight the United States. The name Shoshone means "Valley People" and while they had a snake clan there was no real relevance to a snake than is common among most Native Americans. Today there are approximately 12,000 Shoshone most of which live on any one of the approximately 20 different reservations.