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buffalo runner
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a horse or pony trained for hunting buffalo.
Quotations
1832
Every spring and fall some hundreds of "Freemen," principally French, half-breeds, were with their families accustomed to leave the Settlement for the plains, taking with them their favorite "Buffalo Runners."
1893
. . . the men mount on their well-trained horses, which are justly called "buffalo runners."
1952
The price of a good buffalo runner never fell below this figure in forty years and was sometimes as much as $250.
1955
The ideal buffalo runner was a male, at least 8 years of age, fully developed, solidly built, broad backed, long winded, and sure footed.
2
a mounted man, especially a Métis, who took part in a buffalo run (def. 1).
Quotations
1873
My brother justices [included] two Hudson Bay officials and three half-breed buffalo-runners. . . .
1908
Hosts of freeman--half-breed trappers and buffalo runners--made this their headquarters, refusing allegiance to either company and selling their hunt to the highest bidder.