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far (out) West and North 
adv. of caribou and, formerly, of buffalo, a long distance away from their customary feeding grounds.
- 1858 (1934) Hector . . . records them as "far out" at Rocky Mountain House, in January, 1858.
- 1871 [1872] (1883 [1873]) . . . for the buffalo were "far out," on the great prairie, and that phrase "far out" applied to buffalo, means starvation in the North-west.
- 1957 Up around Norman Joe Blondin reports that the people have been living on moose meat all winter as the caribou were far.
- 1858 (1934) Hector . . . records them as "far out" at Rocky Mountain House, in January, 1858.