prairie wolf

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A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they heard the call of the prairie wolf a short distance to the west of them, and they believed that Red Dog was summoning his warriors.

From White Otter by Gregor, Elmer Russell

Coyote, ko-yōt′e, n. a prairie wolf, abundant in Mexico and Texas.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Where we were encamped, that night, on the Second Branch of Grasshopper Creek, we could distinctly hear the hungry howl of the prairie wolf, a new and amusing music to us.

From Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 by Seville, William P.

There are many varieties, varying greatly in size and color, but there are probably only two distinct species, namely, the timber wolf and the prairie wolf, commonly called the coyote.

From Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture by Kreps, Elmer Harry