buffalo-running

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the hunting of buffalo by running them as opposed to impounding them.

Quotations

1900

For two years their ordinary occupations (trading, buffalo-running, freighting, and so forth) had been interrupted. . . .

1955

A cayuse trained in all the fine arts of buffalo-running was a priceless possession.