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  • That's because the Chicago museum is the major repository for items found at La SolutrĂ©, France, an archaeological site that dates back some 20,000 years and has produced more horse skeletons and artifacts related to horse-hunting than all other European sites combined.

    Tracking Equine Evolution Mark Yost 2011

  • Having parted with Maggie and Lucy, they pushed onwards, the old man beguiling the time with disquisitions on the horse-hunting capabilities of his gins, whom he seemed really sorry to leave.

    Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

  • If the men do not go horse-hunting they may ride off over the range; for there is generally some work to be done among the cattle, such as driving in and branding calves that have been overlooked by the round-up, or getting some animal out of a bog-hole.

    The Home Range 1896

  • "The summer season, with the men, is devoted to war, or their domestic amusements of riding, horse-hunting, ball-plays, and dancing, and by the women to their customary hard labor."

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • One thirsty day, having tramped many miles horse-hunting, deceived by a crystal-clear sheet of water, I plunged in my head and hands, and, before I realised my mistake, took a deep draught with most unpleasant results.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Of these some would be horse-hunting, and the rest tramping ahead in hope of being caught up by the coach.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • (horse-hunting); and it is on record that he required the samurai to practise swimming in the sea.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

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