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buffalo run
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a buffalo hunt in which the animals were pursued on horseback rather than impounded.
Quotations
1860
Every one has seen or read of a buffalo run so it is needless . . . to describe it here.
<i>c</i>1912
The white blood of the plains' trapper preferred a fair fight in an open field--not the indiscriminate carnage of the Indian hunt; so that the greatest buffalo-runs took place after the opening of spring.
1935
. . . a Hudson's Bay officer . . . participated in a buffalo run for the first time (1874).
2n.
a trail made and frequented by buffalo.
See: buffalo trail
Quotations
1910
Behind the house . . . was an old "buffalo run," a narrow path, grass-grown now, but beaten deep into the earth by the hoofs of innumerable buffalo. . . .
1933
. . . in the vicinity of the post, where an old buffalo run can still be traced.