DCHP-2

pitching track North and Northwest DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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. . . .