prairie wolf
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A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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
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
A prairie wolf trotted slowly from sight over a rise of ground.
From The War Trail by Gregor, Elmer Russell