DCHP-3

plain(s) hunt

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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on the prairies, an organized hunt for buffalo.

Quotations

1861
When the plain-hunt fails, the farmer's produce is entirely relied on; when the crops fail, the hunters find ample market; but when both succeed, the market is at once overstocked.
1890
Immense numbers . . . had been annually slaughtered in the great plain hunt of the Red River half-breeds, a system . . . organized early in this century, and continued in full force down to about 1869, after which it began to languish.