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pitching track North and Northwest

a trail used or many years by Indians moving from one region to another.
See also: pitch ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1858 (1860) The term "pitching track" is applied to an Indian trail from one part of the country to another.
- 1895 The pitching trail by which for the first few days after leaving Dunvegan we had travelled did not take us far.
- 1908 As a rule they [the half-breeds] had been born on the "pitching track," in the forest, or on the prairies. . . .
- 1929 . . . "pitching trails" [were so called] for the reason that whole camps travelled them and pitched . . . where feed was plentiful. . . .