Also I'd indicated prairie dogs and squinch owls and Gambel's quail and road runners and a couple of coyotes and lizards and other miscellaneous fauna.
Other living creatures they saw few, save the coyotes that hung on their flanks, the jackrabbits, the prairie dogs, the birds strangely cheerful in the face of the mysterious and solemn desert.
Extract of a Letter from an Officer of the Army, datedPrairie du Chien.
The dog being thus accustomed to be always the victor, never fails to attack and kill the prairie wolf whenever he meets him.
Although this is by no means so picturesque as Hardgrove's, yet the boundless prospect that is presented on first entering this prairie is far the more sublime--the ideas expand, and the imagination is carried far beyond the limits of the eye.
We saw some deer scouring the plains, and several "prairie wolves" skulking in the high grass--this animal is sometimes destructive to sheep.
Transportation was supplied by regular freighters who employed a large number of men to conduct the white-topped prairie schooners across the unsettled plains between the Missouri River and the mountains.
A wide horizon, like that of the prairie or the sea, is the grand charm of Concord.
Yuh wouldn't dast talk up to a prairie dog if yuh wasn't all set to make a quick draw.
And they had squandered all their ammunition on the prairie sod, to hurry a band of sheep that flatly refused to hurry anywhere except under one another's odorous, perspiring bodies.
There ain't enough grass left in our lower field to graze a prairie dog.
About the middle of September, after a pretty good week of prairie travel, we were very glad to receive the greetings of the mission families.
On Monday, before noon, these young men had seen, on some far-off prairie elevation, what seemed to be Indians lying down.
Back of us is the river hill which shelters us from the furious wind of the high prairie beyond.
In this condition, the storm came upon them suddenly, when they were out in the open prairie between the Big Sioux and the James River.
We left Lac-qui-parle June 1, and reached Le Bland's the Saturday following, having enjoyed as pleasant a journey across the prairie as we could expect or hope.
In the green month of June, when the roses on the prairie began to bloom, then they began to assemble at our Dakota Conference.
The thought came, 'It is worth all the trouble of a journey across the wide prairie to see so many Christian Indians.
I watched them drive over the horses; the poor animals were very loath to make a plunge, and some of them turned and ran back on the prairie more than once before they were finally forced into the water.
On this journey across the prairie we encountered many herds of buffalo.
How finally the way appeared, and we filed up the ravine and started over the prairie as fugitives!
I am sure there was not one who did not in heart join in the song and prayer of thanksgiving which went up from that lone prairie land, however much we may have forgotten or murmured since.
The prairie journey was pleasant and enjoyable, though somewhat fatiguing.
We struck out on the prairie to save ourselves if there was any chance.
And so we traveled on over the ravine and up on the broad prairie beyond, and received no harm.
It was not manna rained down around their camp, but the stones of the prairie were miraculously changed into buffalo, which they killed and ate.
Away out in the prairie some two hundred yards you will find Indian trails running parallel with the road, and the Indians keep to these trails to avoid meeting the whites.
As they were recrossing the grand prairie the buffalo-gnats attacked the horses, stampeding them and scattering them for many miles over the country, and were with much difficulty recaptured.
After the whirlwind would come a great prairie fire, which would burn for four days and consume the agency buildings, schools, and all that the white man had established in the country, together with any whites left by the whirlwind.
The entire Kiowa and Prairie Comanches were there; several hundred of Texas or Woods Comanches had come over; the Prairie Apaches, one band of Arapahoes and two bands of Cheyennes and the Osages composed the grand council.
Like the other prairie tribes, they drifted steadily southward, and about the middle of last century were established chiefly about the upper Arkansas and its principal tributaries.
This seems to have been the case also with the Pawnee and perhaps with otherprairie tribes.
The antelope were surrounded on the prairie and driven toward the corral until they came between the converging lines of posts, when it was an easy matter to force them into the closed circle, where they were slaughtered.
The Pawnee followed the trail of the Kiowa, and on coming near them set fire to the prairie to attract their attention.
The prairie Indians were armed with the bow and arrow, while the others had fine rifles.
So called because about twenty-five years ago, while the Kiowa were camped there, a rain drowned out a large number of prairie dogs and the Indians killed and ate them.
The latter advanced against the Kiowa, who summoned them to halt, but notwithstanding the great disparity in numbers, the eastern Indians at once attacked the prairie warriors.
A similar organization is found among most of theprairie tribes, and is commonly known to the whites as the Dog-soldier society, from an imperfect rendering of the name of one of the principal bands.
Blackfoot lodge tales: the story of a prairie people.
I don't know how it is, but if I can only see the smallest bit of terra firma between myself and the edge of a precipice, I feel as though I had a whole vast prairie to range over.
I, "to be remembered when the Danube will be a choked-up rivulet, and the park of Schonbrunn a prairiefor the buffalo.
The life of the bush or the prairie had its incidents, but they were vulgar and commonplace; and worse, the associates and companions of them were more vulgar still.
Near the Fish Eating Creek settlement there is a somewhat drier prairie land than that which I have just described.
It is in this wateryprairie and Everglade region that we find the immediate environment of most of the Seminole Indians.
From Grande Prairie a branch is projected to Kamloops, and south to Nicola.
Not while I had the open prairieunderfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.
Dark came down on the four of us as we topped Manyberries Ridge, and seven or eight miles of rolling prairie still lay between us and Pend d' Oreille.
The eagle came uppermost, and the eagle meant the open prairie for us.
It's sure tough," I voiced a thought that had been running in my mind all morning, "to think that a good old fellow like Hank Rowan has been murdered and left to rot on the prairie like a skinned buffalo.
Goodell had no fancy, he said, for a night camp on the prairie when it could be avoided.
Naturally, I argued with myself, they would turn back when I failed to overtake them--especially if they had thoughtlessly followed some depression in the prairie where I could not easily see them.
As far as the eye could reach the prairie was speckled with the herds, speckled with groups of buffalo as the sky is dotted with clusters of bright stars on a clear night.
The pretty Kaministiquia River flows through rich prairie lands down to Thunder Bay, and here is the chief Canadian town on the lake, Port Arthur.
Progressing westward, the timbered prairie gradually changes to the grass-covered prairie, spreading everywhere a great ocean of fertility.
Across the Wabash is the "Prairie State" of Illinois, its name coming from its principal river, which the Indians named after themselves.
Here the Maumee River is formed by the confluence of the two streams St. Joseph and St. Mary, and flows through the prairie towards the northeast, to make the head of Lake Erie.
Beyond the Allegheny ranges, which are gradually broken down into their lower foothills, and then to an almost monotonous level, the expansive prairie lands stretch towards the setting sun.
The region through which it there passes is mostly a prairie with herds of cattle and much game, and is only sparsely settled.
The railways leading to it traverse the monotonous level of prairie in Illinois and Wisconsin, excepting where a stream may make a gorge, and the face of the country is everywhere almost the same.
All thisprairie region was the hunting-ground of the Miamis, whose domain extended westward to Lake Michigan, and southward along the valley of the Miami River to the Ohio.
Little prairie dogs dodge in and out of their holes, but there is not much else of life.
On the arid prairie lands the effort should be to induce the Indians to lead pastoral rather than agricultural lives, and to permit them to settle in villages rather than to force them into isolation.
Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
The former genus includes the Eastern striped squirrel or chipmunk and some allied Western species; the latter includes the prairie squirrel or striped gopher, the gray gopher, and many allied Western species.
Defn: One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like that of a dog.
Defn: An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
Then the rancher harnessed a fresh team and proceeded to a sloo where his Scandinavian hired man was cutting prairie hay.
Gertrude thought it a great improvement on the prairie wagon, and she admired the restive team which he had some trouble in holding.
Jernyngham and his daughter were not the kind of people the somewhat primitive prairie ranchers would welcome; their request for accommodation was more likely to cause astonishment and alarm.
It is never quite dark on those wide levels in summertime, and, for there was no moon, theprairie stretched away before them shadowy, silent, and mysterious.
For a while a half moon shone down, and their black shadows sped on before them across the glittering plain, but by and by clouds drove up and the prairie grew dim.
An hour or two later Muriel went out on the prairie and walked toward a poplar bluff, in the shadow of which she gathered ripe red saskatoons, and then sat down to look about.
The prairie has drawn me from the beginning, and I felt it would be easier to make a great change in this wonderful open space; I wanted to adopt the country, to feel it belonged to me.
The sun was low, a gray dimness had crept across the eastern half of the prairie where the homestead lay and a piercing wind was springing up.
When Prescott had loaded his wagon she joined him as he led his team between the ranks of stooks, but while she walked by his side he thought of another Englishwoman whom he had once brought home with the prairie hay.
The small, frame houses were destitute of paint and any pretense of beauty, a number of them had raised, square fronts which hid the shingled roofs; but beyond the end of the street there was the prairiestretching back to the horizon.
But Muriel seemed to find the prairie pleasant, and there was a possibility of danger there.
The men searched all the brush, prairie and vacant houses for a mile around, but could find no trace of the corpse.
Old man Carlson remembered that after the man had rented the cottage and received the keys, he walked across the prairie toward O'Sullivan's house.
The bloody trunk that had been found on the Lake View prairie corresponded also in every detail with the one that figured in his bill of goods.
A fine prairie country," writes Bourgmont, "with hills and dales and clumps of trees to right and left.
After marching southwestward for several days, they saw the distant prairie covered with the pointed buffalo-skin lodges of a great Indian camp.
The stretches of high, rolling, treeless prairie grew more vast as the travellers advanced.
Footnote: The Sioux, Cheyennes, and other prairie tribes use the small astringent wild cherry for food.
Then, with a band of Assinniboin Indians who had joined him, he struck across theprairie for the Mandans, his Indian companions hunting buffalo on the way.
He will find himself running like a nigger who has wronged a white woman or a man who has set the prairie on fire.
There have never been those prairie fires of public opinion in England which often sweep over America.
But I am here comparing New York, not with the newer states of the prairie or the mountains, but with the other older cities of the Atlantic coast.
And the silence deepened; no creature stirred in the stagnant hush, and the only sound Was the far-off lumbering jolt, produced by the prairie rolling for leagues around!
Owing to special conditions prevailing in the farthest west of the three Prairie Provinces the Grain Growers' movement there did not solidify until 1909 into its final cohesion under the name, "United Farmers of Alberta.
In many a windswept prairie farm home reigns the sad pride of sacrifice.
The days of prairie fires that ran amuck gave way to thriving crops; but at thirty and forty cents per bushel the thriving of those who sowed them was another matter.
Partridge took to loping across the prairie on a "Shag" pony.
Now, what about the country elevators for government control of which the farmers had campaigned so vigorously in the three Prairie Provinces?
From the Red River Valley to the foothills long-smouldering indignation was glowing like a streak of fire in the prairie grass; a spark or two more and nothing could stop the conflagration that would sweep the plains country.
It was a handy place to live, that little tar-paper shanty around which the prairie wind whooed and whiffed with such disdain.
To-day the farm women of the West are organized with the Grain Growers in all three Prairie Provinces, working side by side.
These interested corporations were not constructing elevators in order to admire their silhouettes against the beautiful prairie sunsets!
The Grain Growers of the three prairie provinces had been watching things closely and they did not propose to let matters take their course unchallenged.
The drouth was due, no doubt, to the frequent prairiefires which swept the country; these found birth in the camp-fire coals left by ignorant or careless settlers on their way in.
All this co-operative purchasing of commodities in the three Prairie Provinces has not been developed to its present great volume without arousing antagonism in the business world.
The Movement has spread steadily until it embraces organization in other thanprairie provinces.
It was under this name that the executive officers of the various farmers' organizations in the three Prairie Provinces first came together to discuss problems affecting the Movement as a whole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prairie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
