oxen

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Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

When that stopped paying out, he used his oxen to feed the town of Bodie.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

The data from 25 years of studying musk oxen were then paired with maps created from the chemical composition of vegetation and soil samples gathered at 50 different spots.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare