Plains gray wolf

Jun 26 1804

Patrick Gass: June 26, 1804

...to a great distance. Our hunters killed 4 deer, and a young wolf, and caught another alive. In the afternoon of the 29th we again proceeded on our voyage, and encam...

Jul 7 1804

Missouri River near St. Joseph area — Patrick Gass: July 7, 1804

...sed a high handsome prairie on the north side, and killed a wolf and a large wood rat on the bank. The prin- cipal difference between it and the common rat is, its ...

Jul 9 1804

Missouri River near St. Joseph area — Patrick Gass: July 9, 1804

...l 12 o’clock. We passed a creek on the south side, called Wolf creek. The man that was snake bitten is become well. We encamped on the south side.

Jul 21 1804

Patrick Gass: July 21, 1804

...live three nations of Indians, the Otos, Panis and Loos, or Wolf Indians. On the south side there is also a creek, called Butterfly creek.

Sep 8 1804

Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain — Patrick Gass: September 8, 1804

... the carcase and carried off the hat. Here we found a white wolf dead, supposed to have been killed in a contest for the buffaloe. We passed high bluffs on the sout...

Sep 17 1804

Missouri River near White River — Patrick Gass: September 17, 1804

... long. One of our men caught a beaver, and killed a prairie wolf.—- These are a small species of wolves, some- thing larger than a fox, with long tails and short ...

Sep 18 1804

Missouri River near Big Bend — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1804

...and is a bird of prey. This day we killed eleven deer and a wolf, and halted and encamped on the south side of the river in order to jirk our meat.

Sep 22 1804

Missouri River near Big Bend — Patrick Gass: September 22, 1804

... two men came to us with the horse. They had killed a white wolf and some deer. We proceeded on, passed a creek, and islands of the Three Sis- ters; and an old Indi...

Sep 28 1804

Teton Sioux confrontation near Pierre, SD — Patrick Gass: September 28, 1804

...ways moving about.* The dogs are not large, much resemble a wolf, and will haul about 70 pounds each. *It appears that these people, (in some respects resembling th...

Nov 8 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 8, 1804

... the carcase and carried off the hat. Here we found a white wolf dead, supposed to have been killed in a contest for the buffaloe. We passed high bluffs on the sout...

Nov 17 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 17, 1804

... long. One of our men caught a beaver, and killed a prairie wolf. — These are a small species of wolves, some- thing larger than a fox, with long tails and short ...

Nov 18 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 18, 1804

...and is a bird of prey. This day we killed eleven deer and a wolf, and halted and encamped on the south side of the river in order to jirk our meat.

Dec 5 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 5, 1804

...r hunters having gone on an island to hunt scared a prairie wolf into the river, which we killed. We passed a creek on the south side called White Goat creek and en...

Dec 27 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 27, 1804

...distance down the river, killed nothing for two days, but a wolf, which they were obliged to eat; and said they relished it pretty well, but found it rather tough. ...

Dec 29 1804

Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: December 29, 1804

...hat first went out, returned. They had killed a buffaloe, a wolf and two porcupines: and one of the men had got his feet so badly frozen that he was unable to come ...