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Lots of things started to change for the Shoshone people they started to have ememies. The shoshones and the white settlers and emigrants became a serious problem in the late 1850s and early 1860s. After the discovery of gold in montana in 1862, more and more whites traveled over shoshone land. In 1863 Colonel Patrick Edward Connoe and about two hundred army volunteers from camp Douglas in Salt lake City attacked Bear Hunter's people, The largest Indian massacre in U.S history.