DCHP-3

whisky rancher

West, Slang, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.

Quotations

1936
. . . British Columbia, New Caledonia then, was a raw wild region, its whole interior almost an unknown land . . . in its foothills Blackfeet warred with Piegan, and the whisky ranchers preyed on both. . . .