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Definition of Cayuses
1. cayuse [n] - See also: cayuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cayuses
Literary usage of Cayuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Oregon by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... army to fight the cayuses. No humane and reasonable being could blame him for
dissembling to the Indians when so many lives were at • 7OO, ..."
2. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1886)
"... and he took measures to warn them not to precipitate him and all the other
Americans in ruin by coming with an army to fight the cayuses. ..."
3. McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle by Eva Emery Dye, John McLoughlin (1900)
"WHITMAN AND HIS cayuses 1837-39 ~T\R- WHITMAN'S Indians were proud of their little
... All through April the cayuses groaned in their teepees. ..."
4. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... Clothes On—Rare Instance of Indian Magnanimity—Surrender of Chief Joseph—
Asking no Favors—His Patriotic Speech—The cayuses—Low, Cunning—Great Thieves. ..."
5. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"S TROUBLES—His NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE cayuses AND NEZ PERCES—A CODE OP LAWS FOR THE
... Word came to Fort Vancouver that the cayuses had burned a mill at the ..."
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