cayuse
- n a small native range horse
- Author Davis climbed astride the tired old cayuse of the western story, rode it through a bright panorama of the old West, and won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize (1936).
- The winner was a wiry, cocky little cowhand named Walter Cook, who loped his cayuse over the 18 miles from the Hennessey line to Enid in less than 55 minutes, swept past the land .
- But he did not get to Nevada on his cayuse.