1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 28 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 211 Found a new indian lodge pole today.

1834 A. Pike Sketches 50 As it is seldom that [the Comanches] find themselves in a place where they can obtain lodge-poles, they are obliged to carry them wherever they go.

1845 J. C. Frémont Exped. 202 Our lodge poles were nearly worn out, and we found here a handsome set, very white, and cleanly scraped.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ii. 28 At night Kabibonokka..Shook the lodge-poles in his fury.

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iii. 37 The dogs were trained to drag the lodge-poles on the march.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xxi. 330 He..with The Rebel went back about a mile to a thicket of lodge poles.

1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 242 They pulled down the lodges of three of their villages and sold the lodgepoles and lumber.

1859 G. A. Jackson Diary 9 Jan. in Colorado Mag. (1935) 12 205 Cut the top off a small lodge pole pine.

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 564 The forests largely composed of the lodge-pole pine..cover the outlying eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains.

1905 N.Y. Evening Post 29 Apr. The lodgepole pine..bears the common name of ‘lodgepole’ from the fact that the Indians used its long slender trunks as supports for their wigwams, or lodges.

1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. 184 Lodgepole Pine (P. Murrayana), a western species.

1949 Sierra Club Bull. (San Francisco) June 6 Lodgepole pines, singing birds and scampering chipmunks,..all familiar elements of the mountain scenes.

1964 N.Z. News 24 Nov. 3/1 The lodgepole pine, becoming common on the Waiouru Plains and a cause of concern because of its possible spread in the South Island, is in fact a favoured species for pulping in U.S.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Jan. 6/1 Amongst the lodge-pole pines and blue spruce.

1972 Country Life 7 Dec. 1559/1 Foresters in Scotland can be criticized for planting an excess of sitka and Canadian lodgepole pine.

1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) ix. 116 Often..their negligent spouses are lodge-poled (beaten) for such accidents.

1968 Amer. Speech 43 218 It was customary to discipline a squaw by lodge-poling her, and the term became figurative for any beating.

1848 G. F. Ruxton in Blackwood's Mag. 64 139 Nor are they [sc. squaws] so schooled to perfect obedience to their lords and masters as to stand a ‘lodge poling’.

1850 H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) x. 131 In the course of which she receives at the hands of her imperious sovereign..no very light lodgepoling.