After years of skirmishes and food raids Attack on farms and ranches , the United States Army attacked Attack a Shoshone encampment , gathered Come_together at the confluence of the Bear River and Beaver Creek in what was then southeastern Washington Territory .

Colonel Patrick Edward Connor led Causation a detachment of California Volunteers as part of the Bear River Expedition against Shoshone Chief Bear Hunter .

Hundreds of Shoshone men , women and children were killed Killing near their lodges , while only two dozen soldiers died Death .

The number of Shoshone victims reported Reporting by local settlers was higher than that reported Reporting by soldiers .