Citations:go off the reservation

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English citations of go off the reservation

  • 1908, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Off the Reservation: Or, Caught in an Apache Raid, page 70:
    Zeke told me cool-like that Geronimo was off the Reservation and he was expecting him every minute.
  • 1921, Anson Mills, “West Point Military Academy”, in My Story[1], page 43:
    We were not allowed to go off the reservation without permission, but on one occasion I was seized with a desire to "run it."