prairie wolf
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A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had no fear of them; for Ben had told me that the prairie wolf is a cowardly animal, and will seldom molest a man, unless driven to it by famine.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.
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
They were riding at an easy canter, when they were suddenly halted by the howling of a prairie wolf directly ahead of them.
From The War Trail by Gregor, Elmer Russell
“Hark! another!—yes—another prairie wolf and on the opposite side too!”
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
