Elkhorn

The Pioneer Mountains rise in the northern Rocky Mountain country east of the Continental Divide. Among their wooded slopes are springs whose waters emerge warm from the ground. The high ranges and valleys of this region were travelled by Shoshone mountain communities, known as Doyahinee or Tukudeka. Their country extended through the Beaverhead and Salmon River mountains; the name Tukudeka, or Sheep Eaters, recalled the mountain sheep that they hunted.