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  • I here first tasted the flesh of the cariboo, which is a fine flavored venison.

    Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

  • Elks 'and deers' horns, the foot, horns, and skin of the cariboo, which is the C. Sylvestris, are deposited in my cabinet, and are mementos of their gifts from the forest.

    Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

  • Elks 'and deers' horns, the foot, horns, and skin of the cariboo, which is the _C.

    Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

  • Think of it! — nearly four years on our bacon and beans and flour and dried fruit, and then to go back to her fish and cariboo.

    THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

  • "Bring up the little bag with the tea and a kettle of water," he called the next instant to his boatmen; "not forgetting the haunch of cariboo and the mixing-pan."

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.

    The Covenant 2010

  • In the winter the cariboo forsook their accustomed track.

    The Famine 2010

  • ` O Thling-Tinneh, mighty chief of the Sticks And the land of the Tanana, ruler of the salmon and the bear, the moose and the cariboo!

    The Sun of the Wolf 2010

  • Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.

    The Enemy of His Kind 2010

  • The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

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