352 Wright, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. [.July 



bridge, O., on September 5, 1S19, Adlard Welby, another English- 

 man sees the wild Turkey, 1 "which seemed to resemble exactly 

 our dark tame breed." At the mouth of the Ohio, 1819, Nuttall 

 finds 2 "The whole country here, on both sides of the Mississippi 

 and the Ohio, .... abounds with various kinds of game, but particu- 

 larly deer and bear, turkeys. . . " The Expedition of Major 

 Stephen H. Long on May 27, 1819, records 3 the turkey at Shawnee- 

 town on the Ohio. Schoolcraft (1. c, 114) in 1821 on the Wabash 

 River says, " The turkey .... often appear, to enliven this part of 

 the river (Mississineva River)." In another work he records that 

 at Prairie di Chien 4 " the wild turkey, .... are also common along 

 this part of the Mississippi, . . . . " On his excursion of 1822-23, 

 W. H. Blane (1. c, p. 239) at Carmi, Ind., "passed on a single day's 

 ride. . . .five gangs of wild turkeys." In "Remarks made on a 



Tour to Prairie du Chien in 1829" (p. 166) Caleb Atwater 



gives the Sioux name for Turkey, as "Zezeha, Zezecha tunka." 

 In 1832 Timothy Flint (1. c, p. 384) writes, "Wild turkeys have 

 been supposed by some, to abound as much on the waters of White 

 River, as they do in the settled regions. Hundreds are sometimes 

 driven from one cornfield." The same year, Vigne (1. c, p. 61) 

 finds "Wild turkeys are there very plentiful," in Indiana and 

 Illinois. In the winter of 1S32-33, Maximilian Prince of Wied 

 says, 5 " The most interesting of the birds in this part (New Harmony 

 on Wabash) is the wild turkey, which was extremely numerous, and 

 is still pretty common. A large cock was sold at Harmony for a 

 quarter of a dollar. A young man in this neighborhood, who 

 supplied the place with this delicate game, had often ten or fifteen 

 hanging about his horse at the same time." Later, he writes "my 

 informant had killed .... great numbers of wild turkeys." " In 

 our excursions we often visited some others of the numerous islands 

 in the Wabash, being particularly attracted by the loud cries of the 



libid., p. 208 (orig. p. 62). 



* ibid., XIII, p. 72 (orig. p. 41). 



3 James, Edwin. Account of expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains 2 vols. Phila., 1823, Vol. I, p. 32. 



4 Schoolcraft, H. R. Travels in Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley. 

 New York, 1825, p. 71. 



s Early Western Travels. Vol. XXII, Part I, p. 168 (77), 178 (81), 19KS9), 

 192(90). 



