buffalo-robe

Once he was settled comfortably on a buffalo-robe pallet, the two bear cubs Pomp had caught, Abby and Andy shuffled up, eager to be petted.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

If one wanted a new buffalo-robe, he would transform himself into a stretching-frame-or if very ambitious, into a tipi, and make off with all of the inhabitant's worldly goods.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

True, with an orderly, two mules, and a horse saddled, found us fording the Laramie River to inspect the grave, -- if such it can be called, as shown in the picture on this page, -- where the body was dried up like a mummy, and nothing else but fragments of a buffalo-robe dangling in the wind was to be seen.

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

Our table was the spring seat of the waggon, our seats the boxes; the stores have come in, or our bundle of rugs; and though the ground was harder to sleep on, as we had no straw under our buffalo-robe, still we got a fair amount of rest at night.

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

We were soon well protected from the prospective inclement weather, with the buffalo-robe presented to me, and quilts around the balance of our load.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

'Landlord, just step round, if you please, and put that buffalo-robe a little more closely about the lady.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

The friar was now conducted by his adopted father to his lodge, which stood on an island in a lake, was introduced as his son to some six or seven of his wives, was given a platter of fish and a buffalo-robe, and altogether was treated quite as a member of the family.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

He occupied a buffalo-robe in my room, and I heard him very busy one night about something, but did not pay much attention to it, as he was often lively at night.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

There was no mistake about that -- the seat which the young soldier occupied, and which very possibly did duty as a bed by night, made by day a particularly comfortable couch, covered as it was with a fine soft buffalo-robe of huge dimensions.

The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach

Their bodies were uncovered from the waist upwards, except when they wore blankets, a modern substitute for the buffalo-robe, which they commonly wore over the left shoulder, leaving the right arm and breast bare.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America