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Usage examples of caribou.

Through conversations with Athapaskans of the interior and by reading their literature one can readily discover that fish and caribou were the primary faunal resources in the early economy of these people.

Caribou T-bone steak, a quarter of blueberry pie and some excellent California burgundy inside him, Brady watched his befurred wife and daughter go out through the main entrance and sighed with satisfaction at the feeling of physical well-being that enveloped him.

Naskapis were obliged to spend part of their time trapping furs, mainly marten, whether or not they preferred to hunt caribou.

His good eye took in the surroundings, the smoke-stained poles supporting the hide walls and roof, the carefully placed weapons, the bundled wolf hides and caribou robes.

As the Jackknife cut a black swath through the Caribou Wilderness and Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, Incident Basethe main camp housing supplies and command headquartersneeded units closer to the fireline.

Plains of old, the migrations of elk and deer through the Mogollon Rim country and the migrations of the Caribou in the north, the migrating life of the Mattole is the Salmon.

If they pulled in a fifty-pound king while they were at it, or took down a caribou with a double shovel rack, so much the better.

Along with their pack frames of caribou antler, Torka, Manaravak, and Grek each wore undergarments, stockings, and mitten liners of the supplest skins of caribou calves, chewed to a consistency of velvet by the women and girls of the band.

A shift of four points into the south-west, coming just at the right time as they entered upon Caribou Crossing, drove them down that connecting link to lakes Tagish and Marsh.

Pony served as anchor to them all, holding a position along the highest ridge directly north of Dundalis, overlooking the valley of evergreens and caribou moss.

Giant mammalian herbivores, like mammoths or caribou, would have fared better here, as their young would have been safer at such a crucial moment in their lives.

His battered Remington M-700 sporting rifle was at his side in its sheath of caribou skin.

The fur of the beaver, bear, fox, elk and caribou, and even the buffalo, was a dependable source of supplies for Indians of the plains, providing them with food for their tables, fur for their clothing, hides for their tepees, and chips for heating their homes.

If he is there late in the fall or early in the winter, he may hunt, with good luck, if he is able to hit anything with a rifle, the moose and the caribou on that long wilderness peninsula between Baddeck and Aspy Bay, where the old cable landed.

Her fingers cramped around the flat biface she used to cut the hide and dismember the carcass, the warm odor of caribou streaming up around her head.