The Shoshone Indians were the first documented people who roamed the land known today as, El Monte. Now forgotten, the Shoshone were essentially erased from their existence. The Shoshone Americans were nomadic people. They fashioned themselves with beautiful colors, beads, unique designs, and concurrently with the four seasons. Music, dance, and art was a large part of the Shoshone Native American culture. Sadly, little remains and is known today of their once large existence.
El Monte, located east of Los Angeles and across the San Gabriel River, had a surge of southern confederacy supporters that pioneered west. Magically, they came across a New England Village that inhabited a well surrounded 160 square acre area of wooded trees. The location, was ideal to fend off Robbers and Barrons from the Los Angeles area. A vigilante group was recognized as the “Monte boys,” mostly Iowa and Kentucky settlers. Along with the “Monte boys” the terrain was guarded heavily, being a naturally wooded area.
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