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buffalo plain(s)
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the prairies, where the buffalo once was plentiful.
See also:
buffalo country
1862
 
Sterile and stony buffalo plain, poor grass, no water for some miles.
1935
 
The buffalo plains of Alberta were untrodden by white men before 1870.
1952
 
He looked out over the shivering thousand, over the snow and the great buffalo plain, and the free, wild, uncompassionate land of the Metis.