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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1896

How cold, I cannot adequately describe; and our wood was going stick by stick, and we had begun on our lodge poles, all but two of which had been consumed by the time we reached the "last wood."

1913

. . . a bend in one of the branches of the Souris River where the last woods occurred on the route between Pile of Bones Creek and the Old Wives' Lakes.

1955

last woods. A popular term applied to small, scattered groves and thickets above or north of timberline.