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buffalo hunter

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who took part in buffalo hunts.

See: plain(s) hunter

Quotations

1860

The carts were ranged round each tent--their number betokening the importance of the owner; for with the buffalo hunters as with the rest of the world, the power of the almighty dollar or its current equivalent in horses and carts, is most keenly appreciated.

1963

Here, Henry Kountz, a whisky trader and buffalo hunter, built a cabin in the early 1870's.