DCHP-3

white buffalo

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

an albino buffalo.

Quotations

1793
The men were in chace of a white Buffalo all day but could not get within shot of him.
1800
White buffalo are very scarce.
1953
Against the far wall of the teepee the Sioux chieftain was sitting on a white buffalo robe. . . .
2 — Obs.

the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.

Quotations

1789
Our conductor informed us that great numbers of bears, and small white buffaloes, frequent those mountains, which are also inhabited by Indians.