prairie wolf

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A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

Only hard men continue in that service, and perhaps the prairie wolf alone knows what becomes of some of the unfit who try it.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

Then as they continued to listen they heard the cry of a prairie wolf, far to the westward.

From The War Trail by Gregor, Elmer Russell

“But I have heard it said,” rejoined Tiburcio, “that it is the habit of the prairie wolf to follow the jaguar when the latter is in search of prey?”

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne