bald-headed 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

1889

About sixty miles out [of Calgary] the country loses the appearance of what is known among cattlemen as the bald-headed prairie. . . .

1963

. . . the squat, sod-walled hovel . . . sat . . . forlornly on the bald-headed prairie. . . .