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Notes from the Century Before 235: He was a prankish hunter. He’d make his rich clients strip down to the buff in making a stalk, ‘like the Indians do’.at buff, n.1
Notes from the Century Before 235: He was a prankish hunter. He’d make his rich clients strip down to the buff in making a stalk, ‘like the Indians do’. Notes from the Century Before 254: Captain Callbreath had seen too many eightball prospectors to hide his scorn.at eightball, n.
Notes from the Century Before 241: Bush pilots like Danny Bereza fly with their native verve and homing instinct and the seat of their pants.at fly by the seat of one’s pants (v.) under fly, v.
Notes from the Century Before 218: Sure, they were a bit funny in the head, but so was he.at funny, adj.1
Notes from the Century Before 63: [H]e [a backwoods outlaw] was the guru young men came to see before setting out on the Telegraph Trail. A mountain was named after him.at guru, n.
Notes from the Century Before 127: Hans made a hit with him. They talked about tough winters spent in the bush.at make a hit (v.) under hit, n.
Notes from the Century Before 211: [A] whole bunch of instances when white men have jiggered him out of his rights or his money.at jigger, v.1
Notes from the Century Before 11: He was eventually imprisoned a couple of years for siphoning gas for his outboard kicker from a cache of emergency airplane fuel.at kicker, n.1
Notes from the Century Before 7: [I]t turned out that everyone’s cat or dog was getting shot [...] [W]hen the winter was spent by the window shooting at coyotes and such, it was hard not to knock over Spot if he started to dig in the garden.at knock over, v.
Notes from the Century Before 198: The nurse climbed out shakily. ‘Come on, mother,’ the Mountie said. ‘Move your big ass’.at move (one’s) ass (v.) under move, v.
Notes from the Century Before 131: This pair palled together [...], took out the English earls on hunts, and watched the Gold Rush from the vantage point of Caribou Hide.at pal with (v.) under pal, v.
Notes from the Century Before 203: H]e’s worked on dozens of creeks in the area, spending his money as he earned it. ‘Nobody else was going to pee my money against the wall except me.’.at pee (something) against the wall (v.) under pee, v.
Notes from the Century Before 299: The next year she plugged on to Point Barrow on the Bering Strait.at plug, v.1
Notes from the Century Before 130: They were skookum Indians, tough Indians, cohesive and free.at skookum, adj.
Notes from the Century Before 238: He had been drinking Wrangell beer [...] on top of his own ‘black bottom’ stuff, so he was half snooted.at snooted, adj.
Notes from the Century Before 31: Stunting for Timmer and me, Ellis shoots into the narrowest sloughs, curving with them and out at the end.at stunt, v.
Notes from the Century Before 229: [T]he Tahltans have voted to make their reserve wet, so there is nothing the Mountie can do except to come down and see whom the bottles are addressed to.at wet, adj.1
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