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The seminomadic Bannock tribes of western Wyoming and eastern Idaho lived in grass huts during winter months and tipis made of animal skins and poles during summer months, according to photographs taken by William Henry Jackson in 1872 and 1878. Typically they traveled, wintering in southeastern Idaho's lowlands around present-day Soda Springs or on the Fort Hall bottoms, and summering in the eastern Idaho mountains, the Tetons around Jackson Hole, Wyo., or in present-day Yellowstone National Park. Unlike their Shoshonean neighbors, the Bannocks are a Northern Paiute culture, but lived among the Western Shoshones. They now share the Fort Hall Indian Reservation with the Shoshones as the combined Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Early attempts to change the Bannocks' lifestyle from hunter-gatherers to subsistence farming didn;t fare well; the proud and aggressive Bannocks didn't get on well with Indian agents on the reservation, who punished them by withholding food supplies, resulting in the Bannock War of 1878-9. Following the conflict, many Bannocks refused to return to the reservation and simply disappeared into the wilderness. For remaining reservation Bannocks, things didn't improve much for about 20 years. A group of Idaho Falls investors who contracted with the government to build an irrigation system for the reservation went into receivership. When the Idaho Canal bringing Snake River water to Indians' fields continuously failed, the government refused to pay the investors. The company was taken over by James H. Brady in 1902, but service didn't improve much until he sold the company back to the government in 1908, just before he became governor of Idaho. An Oklahoma-style land rush in 1907 reduced reservation lands.