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In spite of the indelible image of whooping, befeathered savages on horseback, most Indians in the Americas were footbound.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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He had had them flee to the flanks, distancing the footbound Shadowlanders, then had brought them back behind our enemies, scattered so they could cut down fugitives.
Dreams of Steel Cook, Glen 1990
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The next pole stood like a giant buried up to his chest and looked singularly helpless and footbound; and the last one I saw showed just its crossbar with three glassy, green insulators above the mountain of snow.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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