horse-beef

In some articles used for culinary purposes, Parisians go beyond the Chinese, as in the use of horse-beef.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

Large earthen vessels were on the fire, boiling and stewing the horse-beef; and several baskets, containing 50 or 60 pairs of moccasins, indicated the presence, or expectation, of a considerable party.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

Next day, accordingly, the hunters turned out early in the morning, and before noon returned with four deer and a duck, which, with the remains of horse-beef on hand, gave them a much more plentiful stock of provisions than had lately fallen to their lot.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

"horse-beef" to be very good eating, although at first the very idea of tasting it was repulsive to me.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

This fastidiousness does not, however, seem to proceed so much from any dislike to the food, as from attachment to the animal itself; for many of them eat very heartily of the horse-beef which we give them. "

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

"We gave Neeshnepahkeeook and his people some of our game and horse-beef, besides the entrails of the deer, and four fawns which we found inside of two of them.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805