out West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in or to the Prairie Provinces of Canada.

Quotations

1888

All ponies and dogs "out West" seem shy of women.

1920

. . . the cook . . . taught him recipes which would be useful when he had to "batch" again out West.

1961

". . . I've worked freights that have carried more passengers than the passenger runs did, especially out west in the Depression."