Firewater [noun]

Red Crow deprecated these occurrences, but confessed his powerlessness to prevent the flow of either firewater or of blood.

They finally left him tied with his own new rope to a huge drift log at the base of the pier, and went back to buy more firewater.

Our young men were lazy, and had not many skins to sell; but they wanted Cappen Gray's goods; they liked the firewater a heap.

How long was it before our kind Christian friends discovered that the firewater of the palefaces was not an "agency" for good?

"The Comanches are not like the Pawnees or Cheyennes to kill their eyes and ears with firewater," retorted the chief.

My people barter away their best treasures for the white man's miserable firewater.

He inspired his followers with many good thoughts; taught them to give up firewater (whiskey) and also to till the soil.

Ridge was naturally abstemious, the half-Cherokee sober from having seen the mischief wrought his mother's race by the firewater.

Who makes the "firewater," and who supplies the untutored savage with the means of intoxication?

But not a gambling or drinking saloon, or a drop of firewater, was to be found in all the town.