DCHP-2
jumping pound DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a place where Plains Indians slaughtered buffalo by stampeding them over a precipice.
See also: buffalo jump
- 1888 (1890) On the other side of the Bow river is a canon known as "the jumping pound," over the edge of which the hunters used to drive the buffalo, and in this canon their bones still lie in places two or three feet deep.
- 1949 Many places on the prairies were known as Jumping Pounds, and at the foot of these cliffs, large quantities of buffalo bones may be disinterred.
- 1888 (1890) On the other side of the Bow river is a canon known as "the jumping pound," over the edge of which the hunters used to drive the buffalo, and in this canon their bones still lie in places two or three feet deep.