DCHP-3

bush ranching

B.C. and W. Alta
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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clearing land for and operating a bush ranch.

Quotations

1948
The clearing of these places with axe and fire, and much muscle and sweat, was known as "bush ranching," or in our local slang "bushwhacking"--the man who did it was a "bushwhacker."
1948
I knew a few men who were bush ranching at that time. . . .