pitching track

North and Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trail used or many years by Indians moving from one region to another.

See: pitch ((v.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1858

The term "pitching track" is applied to an Indian trail from one part of the country to another.

1895

The pitching trail by which for the first few days after leaving Dunvegan we had travelled did not take us far.

1908

As a rule they [the half-breeds] had been born on the "pitching track," in the forest, or on the prairies. . . .

1929

. . . "pitching trails" [were so called] for the reason that whole camps travelled them and pitched . . . where feed was plentiful. . . .