buffalo plain(s)†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the prairies, where the buffalo once was plentiful.

Quotations

1862

Sterile and stony buffalo plain, poor grass, no water for some miles.

1935

The buffalo plains of Alberta were untrodden by white men before 1870.

1952

He looked out over the shivering thousand, over the snow and the great buffalo plain, and the free, wild, uncompassionate land of the Metis.