Origins: Buffalo girls & motorcycle racing

Subject: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: GUEST,mcpiper
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 05:17 AM

Any info on origins of Buffalo Girls would help solve clear up a few assumptions, in of all places, motorcycle racing. When a rider is overtaken on the outside of a corner, they are, in the small circle of racers I know, reffered to as Buffalo girls, because they go round the outside. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: GUEST,pavane
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 07:19 AM

There is information available here, but you have to search under Buffalo GALS.

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 09:27 PM

mcpiper
not heard that one. but we might see a bit of it next year in the MotoGP, I predict fireworks in the Rossi/Biaggi corner.

Buffalo Girls or undertakers? reminds me of the old chestnut about passing side and suicide. (It looses a little in translation crossing the pond **BG**)

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: Leeder
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 11:16 PM

The Wood Buffalo (species of the bison) was more widespread in the early days, right into the eastern states, so Buffalo Creek could have been named after the animal rather than a person. I'd be interested to see the source of the information on the name.

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 11:47 PM

The story is pretty well told in thread 13658: Lubly Fan Buffalo Gals
It first was printed in 1848, author unknown, apparently taken from Lubly Fan, a minstrel song of 1844.

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From:
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 04:59 PM

When I lived in Buffalo (NY) I was told that the town name came from a corruption of the French Beau Fleuve for beautiful river. The poet and professor Allen De Loach started a chapbook series there called Beau Fleuve which was being printed by the Coach House Press in Toronto and I asked where the name came from.
I am wondering if name of the song might be related to the name used for the Black Soldiers after the Civil War -- Buffalo Soldiers -- supposedly because their hair was like the fur on the buffalo. If the women were with the soldiers to do the laundry they might have been black, former slaves.

Subject: RE: Origins: Buffalo girls
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 11:24 PM

Cool White's song, "Lubly Fan", 1844, is in the Levy sheet music collection. Box 020, Item 028.