See go on the scout in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1908, John M. Elkins, Life on the Texas Frontier, page 98:",
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"ref": "2004, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Teton Temptress:",
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"ref": "2013, Gary Dallmann, White Fox: Dakota Warrior, page 80:",
"text": "Bloody Feet will choose two warriors and go on the scout to the Iowa nation.",
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"ref": "2005, Louis L'Amour, Under the Sweetwater Rim: A Novel:",
"text": "The men liked him, respected his knowledge, and his lack of desire to impress. “Chancel,” Major Devereaux said, “I want you to go on the scout.”",
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"ref": "1893, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court:",
"text": "Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?",
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"ref": "2010, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, Zeke and Ned, page 172:",
"text": "The word from Tuxie Miller, who had seen Zeke after he returned home with Becca, was that Zeke was so apprehensive about the arrival of the white law that he planned to go on the scout the very next day.",
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"ref": "2012, Loren D. Estleman, Whiskey River:",
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