plainsman

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a man who lived on or was familiar with the prairies in early times.

Quotations

1801

Jas. Ruchan began yesterday to make plainsmen's coat for Ind. . . .

1887

I have heard plainsmen, who were all their lives on the plain, say that it is impossible to have a cross between the buffalo and domesticated cattle.

1939

After a careful examination of the two, I confess that my faith in the average plainsmen's tradition?whether red or white?is very weak.

1963

He would use this skilled plainsman against the American traders who were making incursions on Hudson's Bay Company territory.