in or to the Prairie Provinces of Canada.
- 1888  (1890)  All ponies and dogs "out West" seem shy of women.
- 1920  . . . the cook . . . taught him recipes which would be useful when he had to "batch" again out West.
- 1961  ". . . I've worked freights that have carried more passengers than the passenger runs did, especially out west in the Depression."