Pays Sauvages

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See: Indian country(def. 2)

1834

When a person has resolved to settle in the "pays sauvage" . . . the sooner he takes a wife the better.

1952

They came each year into the Pays Sauvages . . . the great wide wilderness of mighty mountains on the west and frozen muskeg in the north. . . .

1960

The Nor'westers . . . took their trade goods into the Pays Sauvages, the Pays d'en Haut of the Red River country and beyond. . . .