But, badly exposed in their own persons, the fire from the buffalo-wallow made such havoc in their front ranks that the savage column swerved, broke, and retreated. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)
As the mule pitched over dead, providentially he fell on the bank of a buffalo-wallow -- a circular depression in the prairie two or three feet deep and eight or ten feet in diameter, made by buffalo wallowing in a muddy pool during the rains. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)
Seeing that all was well, he got an old discarded saddle out of the shed, threw it on his shoulder, and descended to the general level to find himself a buffalo-wallow. ❋ Charles D. Stewart (N/A)
That night we laid out, sleeping without hardship in a dry buffalo-wallow, and noon of the next day brought us to Walsh, a huddle of log buildings clustering around a tall pole from which fluttered the union jack. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
He unfastened the coffee-pot from my saddle, and made for the coulée channel we had crossed, in which a buffalo-wallow still held water from the recent rain. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
Dinky-Dunk finding my bones picked as clean as those animal-carcasses we see in an occasional buffalo-wallow. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
The other shooter came up, having shot nine, and reported that Considine had had a fall; his horse, not being used to the country, had plunged up to his shoulders in a concealed buffalo-wallow, and turned right over on him. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Sometimes it would be a small trickling stream in a coulee; sometimes a soft damp gravel bed, where she was obliged to scoop out a hole; sometimes it was a muddy buffalo-wallow, -- and it was always strong with alkali -- but it was the best there was. ❋ Unknown (1901)
They had come to an alkali mud-hole, an old buffalo-wallow, which had filled up and was covered with a sun-baked crust, that let them through as if they had stepped on a trap-door. ❋ Unknown (1896)
He had heard it on the night that Fletcher and his band of raiders stampeded his stock, and he had thrown himself into an old buffalo-wallow and allowed three hundred frantic cattle to gallop over his head. ❋ Harry Castlemon (1878)
That curious depression so frequently seen on the great plains, called a buffalo-wallow, is caused in this wise: The huge animals paw and lick the salty, alkaline earth, and when once the sod is broken the loose dirt drifts away under the constant action of the wind. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
Now, in addition to the pangs of hunger, a scarcity of water confronted us, and one day we were compelled to resort to a buffalo-wallow and suck the moist clay where the huge animals had been stamping in the mud. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
Agate, Monotony, Kit Carson -- with ever the ant-hill and the buffalo-wallow -- ever the herds of cattle and the cow-boys ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)
a buffalo-wallow successfully defended their lives, and so they entered upon their work with little thought of disaster. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)
a buffalo-wallow suddenly appear right under his horse's nose, and half-flinched, expecting a certain fall; but old "Close Up" strode over it, apparently having a leg to spare for emergencies of the sort. ❋ Unknown (1902)
BOOM...BOOM....BOOM [the massive] chick [stormed] through the house. She sat down on the couch where she made a [buffalo wallow]. ❋ Cannibalcamel (2011)
