These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones. |
His West, under the Big Sky, is all skittering lizards, Indians on horseback, and mountain men eating pemmican. |
The field ration was almost entirely pemmican, two pounds per day, with a few biscuit and the indispensable tea. |
They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive. |
It in involved dried meats, sausage, pemmican and skill development in meat cutting and preparation. |
The Métis tried to get the pemmican back but the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company stopped them. |