buffalo-skins

Chicago to Washington in his war-paint, ornamented with eagle's feathers, buffalo-skins, horse-hair, bears 'claws, and trophies of his skill, which he values more highly than a brigadier the stars upon his shoulders!

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

The barge was well supplied with buffalo-skins, upon which the horse was thrown with his legs bound, and then half an hour's rowing brought them to the other side.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

The Indian, to whom the buffalo is food, clothing, and lodging (for his tent, as well as his few if not scanty habiliments, is formed of buffalo-skins stretched over lodge-poles), justly complains of this shameful improvidence and cruelty.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Blankets, and bear and buffalo-skins, constituted often the principal bed-covering.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

The barge was well supplied with buffalo-skins, upon which the horse was thrown with his legs bound, and then half an hour's rowing brought them to the other side.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr

They live in tents or lodges, called "Tepees," made of tanned buffalo-skins, and usually hold about five persons, in which they cook and sleep.

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

I entered them very gratefully, and he laid a board on the floor, covered it with an over - coat made of buffalo-skins, and cheerfully invited me to go to bed.

The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

Some hunters, who have married Indian squaws, carry about with them the Indian lodge of buffalo-skins, which are stretched in a conical form round a frame of poles.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

I entered them very gratefully, and he laid a board on the floor, covered it with an overcoat made of buffalo-skins, and cheerfully invited me to go to bed.

The Story of a Pioneer 1915

To this fort came the Indian with his buffalo-skins, marten, lynx, mink, ermine, fox, beaver, bear and musquash – precious peltry that would be carried overland by the Company's trusted servants to the shores of Hudson Bay, and from thence shipped to the marts of the world.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910