DCHP-3

buffalo horse

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a horse or pony trained for hunting buffalo.

See: buffalo runner(def. 1)

Quotations

1933
. . . a trained buffalo horse would generally keep out of the way of furious or wounded buffalo.
1952
The trained buffalo horse, regarded by frontiersmen as the most intelligent animal that ever lived on the Plains, was high-strung, "spooky," and impossible to hold once the killing run started; he knew his own job and expected his rider to take care of himself.