1834  (1963)  When a person has resolved to settle in the "pays sauvage" . . . the sooner he takes a wife the better.
1952  (1954)  They came each year into the Pays Sauvages . . . the great wide wilderness of mighty mountains on the west and frozen muskeg in the north. . . .
1960  The Nor'westers . . . took their trade goods into the Pays Sauvages, the Pays d'en Haut of the Red River country and beyond. . . .