wood-bison

Updated: June 22, 2025

There the fur-bearing animals exist in greatest plenty, and many others whose skins are valuable in commerce, as the moose, the wapiti, and the wood-bison. But there is also a "prairie" district in the fur countries. The great table prairies of North America, that slope eastward from the Rocky Mountains, also extend northward into the Hudson's Bay territory.

Mayne Reid - Popular Adventure Tales

There dwells the American hare, with its enemy the Canada lynx. There the fur-bearing animals exist in greatest plenty, and many others whose skins are valuable in commerce, as the moose, the wapiti, and the wood-bison. But there is also a "prairie" district in the fur countries.

Mayne Reid - The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North