buffalo-hunting

In the Texas buffalo-hunting grounds where Jones and Plummer operated, another hide trading center developed around Fort Griffin.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

I have been hard at work all day to drown my anxieties, which are heightened by a rumor that Evans has gone buffalo-hunting on the

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman, then a road-contractor, then a student of fishes, then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general.

Representative Men 2006

They were therefore not members of the buffalo-hunting party, but were on the war-path.

Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

The first time that he went buffalo-hunting, the animals were very numerous, but he did not seem to kill any.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

Here, within the same geographical limits of the north temperate zone, and with the far simpler scheme of surface relief which characterizes the New World, we have civilizations as different as those of the Eskimo, the Algonkin peoples of the coniferous forests, the Huron and Iroquois of the deciduous hardwoods, horticultural Muscogeans in the south-east, buffalo-hunting Sioux on the prairie, predatory Apaches and

The Unity of Civilization Various

This example was soon followed by several others; but as the main body, consisting of upward of a hundred, still remained undisturbed, the signal for attack was reserved, as the first object in buffalo-hunting appears to be precisely that in our own glorious fox-hunting -- to get on good terms with the chase.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

On Battle Creek they built the first post, Fort Walsh, and though in time they located others, Walsh remained headquarters for the Northwest so long as buffalo-hunting and the Indian trade endured.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Indeed, setting aside the excitement of a chase on horseback, buffalo-hunting is too wholesale a business to afford much sport-that is, on the prairies; but in the mountains, where they are met with in small bands, and require no little trouble and expertness to find and kill, and where one may hunt for days without discovering more than one band of half a dozen, it is then an exciting and noble sport.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman; than a road-contractor; then a student of fishes; then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general.

Uses of Great Men 1914