subs. (colonial).—See quot. 1869.
1869. A. K. MCCLURE, Three Thousand Miles through the Rocky Mountains, 211. [In the Far West] everything is an ‘OUTFIT,’ from a train on the plains to a pocket-knife. It is applied indiscriminately,—to a wife, a horse, a dog, a cat, or a row of pins.
1888. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 16 Feb. The fortune we had longed for lay at our feet…. That night we let three of the most reckless devils in the OUTFIT into the secret, and the next morning I started for San Francisco.
1888. Missouri Republican, 1 April. I returned to Las Vegas with a freighter, whose OUTFIT consisted of six horses and two wagons, one of the latter being a trail vehicle.
1889. H. O’REILLY, Fifty Years on the Trail, 158. The waggon-master had the presence of mind to gallop his team out into the prairie, whilst the entire OUTFIT made for the best cover it could find.
