Wildlife

Plains gray wolf

Canis lupus nubilus
Habitat
Kansas onward
Conservation
Vulnerable

Corps met the Plains or Bison wolf frequently throughout its range. This subspecies now extinct; others recovering.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Plains gray wolf

Oct 29 1805
Clark: October 29, 1805
...r 1/2 mile wide at rocks The robes of those Indians are, of wolf deer Elk, wild cats, Some fox, & Deer I saw one of the mountain Sheep, th wool thick and long Cors...
Jan 5 1806
Lewis: January 5, 1806
...ot very particular, the flesh of the dog the horse and the wolf, having from habit become equally formiliar with any other, and I have learned to think that if th...
Jan 15 1806
Clark: January 15, 1806
...he quiver is useally the Skin of a young bear or that of a wolf invariably open at the Side in Sted of the end, as the quiver of other Indians generally are, this...
Jan 15 1806
Lewis: January 15, 1806
...he quiver is usually the skin of a young bear or that of a wolf invariably open at the side in stead of the end as the quivers of other Indians generally are; th...
Feb 15 1806
Clark: February 15, 1806
...e Mule deer, the black tailed fallow Deer, the large brown wolf, the Small wolf of the Plains, the large wolf of the Plains, Panther, the tiger cat, the common re...
Feb 15 1806
Lewis: February 15, 1806
...ck tailed fallow deer, the Mule deer, Elk, the large brown wolf, the small woolf of the plains, the large wolf of the plains, the tiger cat, the common red fox, b...
Feb 16 1806
Clark: February 16, 1806
...inted eyes Small, ears erect and pointed like those of the wolf, hair Short and Smooth except on the tail where it is as long as that of the Cur dog and streight....
Feb 16 1806
Lewis: February 16, 1806
...inted eyes small, ears erect and pointed like those of the wolf, hair short and smooth except on the tail where it is as long as that of the curdog and streight. ...
Feb 21 1806
Clark: February 21, 1806
...3 times a day and is on the recovery fast. The large brown Wolf is like that of the atlantic States, and are found only in the woody Country on the Pacific Ocean ...
Apr 20 1806
Lewis: April 20, 1806
...hose of the men and women are principally deer skins, some wolf, elk, bighorn and buffaloe; the latter they procure from the nations who sometimes visit the Misso...
Apr 20 1806
Clark: April 20, 1806
... down the river. They have all new, Deer, Elk, Ibex Goat & wolf Skin robes, their Children also the large squirel Skin robes, maney of them have Legins and mocke...
Apr 26 1806
Clark: April 26, 1806
...m the rain by means of an old tent. Saw a Goat and a Small wolf at a distance to day. made 28 miles
Jul 24 1806
Lewis: July 24, 1806
...n and wounded one of them very badly. the small speceis of wolf barks like a dog, they frequently salute us with this note as we pass through the plains.
Jul 31 1806
Clark: July 31, 1806
...et out as usial about Sun rise passed a rapid which I call wolf rapid from the Circumstance of one of those animals being at the rapid. here the river approaches ...
Aug 1 1806
Lewis: August 1, 1806
...und in winter; as they feed principally on flesh, like the wolf, they are most fatt when they can procure a sufficiency of food without rispect to the season of ...

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