Gooseberries and camas root, Camassia quamash are traditional vegetable foods for the Lemhi Shoshone.

[4] In the 19th century, buffalo hunting provided meat, furs, hides, and other materials.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered the Lemhi at the Three Forks of the Missouri River in 1805.

[5] In the 1860s, Indian agents estimated the Lemhi population, which included Shoshone, Bannock, and Tukudeka (Sheepeaters), to be 1,200.

Robert Harry Lowie studied the band and published The Northern Shoshone, a monograph about them in 1909.