bald prairie

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the expanse of treeless grassland in the southern third of the Prairie Provinces, lying roughly between Winnipeg and Calgary.

Quotations

1903

Every mark of the handiwork of man on the bald prairie had been made by himself.

1958

This [the North West] was a vague wilderness near a place called Winnipeg, where you could file on a homestead of 160 acres of bald prairie for free.