prairie wool

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1953 quote.

Quotations

1934

She loved . . . every blade of prairie wool . . . the sunflowers which covered the alkali flats. . . .

1953

The sheep crop the "prairie wool"--that excellent hard forage composed of spear-grass, bunch-grass and buffalo-grass.

1964

Solidly entrenched along road allowances, coulee banks and pastures of prairie wool they have multiplied. . . .