buck-ague

Could it be true that I had an attack of "buck-ague"?

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

Would you get buck-ague in a pinch and quit me if it came to a show-down?

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

Me, I've had buck-ague for most three hours expecting that doggoned holdup to blow the roof of my head off.

Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912

But it is not the startling discoveries of these doctors, not the sophomoric essays of new-fledged Hippocrati now struggling manfully with buck-ague, snake bite and new babies at Nassawadox, Jones 'Switch and elsewhere that constitute the chief charm of Jay Jay's versatile journal.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

But I had created such a scene over my affair that the others were so scared that they were having a regular buck-ague, and some of them had even staggered out of their tracks.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

Uncle Kit had told me about the "buck-ague" and I knew I had it when I tried to draw a bead on that big gobbler.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

Uncle Kit had told me about the "buck-ague" and I knew I had it when I tried to draw a bead on that big gobbler.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872