the expanse of treeless grassland in the southern third of the Prairie Provinces, lying roughly between Winnipeg and Calgary.
See also: bald prairie
- 1889  (1892)  About sixty miles out [of Calgary] the country loses the appearance of what is known among cattlemen as the bald-headed prairie. . . .
- 1963  . . . the squat, sod-walled hovel . . . sat . . . forlornly on the bald-headed prairie. . . .