shantee

Foiled in their purpose, the rioters repaired to the shantee where the murder was committed, and precipitated it over the bluff.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Foiled in their purpose, the rioters repaired to the shantee where the murder was committed, and precipitated it over the bluff.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

It's more than your old shantee and all you've got in it are worth.

The Boy Trapper Harry Castlemon 1878

Facing his shantee upon the opposite side of the fire, a pole is reared upon crotches five or six feet high, across which reposes a choice selection of the dainties of his range, to wit: the "side ribs," shoulders, heads, and "rump-cuts" of deer and sheep, or the "dèpouille" and

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

His shantee faces a huge fire, and is formed of skins carefully extended over an arched frame-work of slender poles, which are bent in the form of a semicircle and kept to their places by inserting their extremities in the ground.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

On recognizing me, I was welcomed with great cordiality, and we were forthwith conducted to his shantee and sumptuously entertained upon the choicest in his possession.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

Foiled in their purpose, the rioters repaired to the shantee where the murder was committed, and precipitated it over the bluff.

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

Here they find another shantee, but a few yards from the entrance of that wondrous cavern which is formed by the falling flood on one side, and by the mighty rock over which it pours, on the other.

Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

The path taken by “the company” to the shantee, which contained the “book of names” was always the same; this wound down the steep bank from the gate of the hotel garden, and was rendered tolerably easy by its repeated doublings; but it was by no means the best calculated to manage to advantage the pleasure of the stranger in his approach to the spot.

Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

These, with the stout poles which they had then cut and laid on transversely, at short intervals, made a substantial framework for the roof of the shantee.

Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831