DCHP-2
white buffalo DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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an albino buffalo.
- 1793 (1889) The men were in chace of a white Buffalo all day but could not get within shot of him.
- 1800 (1897) White buffalo are very scarce.
- 1953 Against the far wall of the teepee the Sioux chieftain was sitting on a white buffalo robe. . . .
2 — Obs.
the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.
See also: Dall sheep
- 1789 (1801) Our conductor informed us that great numbers of bears, and small white buffaloes, frequent those mountains, which are also inhabited by Indians.
- 1793 (1889) The men were in chace of a white Buffalo all day but could not get within shot of him.