squaw wood †

West and Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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easily gathered fuel for fires, such as small, dry sticks, pine cones, and cow chips.

Quotations

1944

[squaw wood. A slang name for dried cow chips also used in speaking of small, dry, easily broken sticks when used for fuel.]

1954

Squaw wood, some people call it contemptuously, but I felt most grateful to it that night as I toasted myself at the glowing fire.