英语词汇buffalo chips的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	buffalo chips
词源	buffalo chips. Dried buffalo dung. Louis L’Amour describes their gathering and use by wagon team women in his novel Comstock Lode (1981): “There was a space of wagon-tongue lashed there and a sheet of canvas . . . ‘What’s that for?’ ‘Buffalo chips,’ a bystander said. ‘The women folks walk behind the wagon and pick up buffalo chips and toss them onto that can- vas. They’re the only fuel you are likely to find.’ ” American re- sourcefulness at its most fundamental.
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