VOl 'lfS XI1 ] Wright, Early Records of the Will Turkey. 357 



the West at which point we saw large flocks of Turkeys." About 

 the same time, Stephen H. Long (1. c, pp. 96, 111, 373) finds that 

 at Franklin on the Missouri, " Most of the deer . . . . , as well as the 

 turkies have fled from this part of the country, though but a few 

 years since they were extremely abundant." and that at Isle au 

 Vache (100 miles above Osage) there were great numbers of turkies. 

 In 1832, Timothy Flint (1. c, 305, 94) writes that in Missouri 

 "Wild turkeys furnish admirable sport to the gunner" and of the 

 Mississippi at the Falls pf St. Anthony he says, "Its broad and 

 placid current is often embarassed with islands, often containing 

 from five hundred to a thousand acres, and abounding with wild 

 turkeys . . . . " The same author in a previous work (1826) finds 

 that 1 " There is a great abundance and variety of wild fowl, and 

 turkeys, . ..." at Jackson, Missouri. In 1832-33, Latrobe records 

 that 2 "Turkeys were plentiful in the woods" of Missouri. About 

 this same time, Maximilian, Prince of Wied, states that 3 "wild 

 turkeys were not often found" at St. Charles on the Missouri. 

 Near Gasconade River, he says "our hunters fired unsuccessfully 

 at a flock of wild turkeys." At Osage on the Missouri, he writes, 

 " Some of my people, attracted by the cries of the wild turkeys, 

 were tempted to land, but returned without having met with any 

 success. I happened to have taken no piece with me, which I 

 much regretted for a wild turkey-cock came out of a bush about 

 ten paces from me, and stood still, looking at me, while his splendid 

 feathers shone in the sun," and at Boyer's Creek near Council 

 Bluffs, he notes " We had a fruitless chase after some wild turkeys." 

 At Missouri City, he finds that "Wild turkeys are still met with." 

 A year later (April 4, 1834), John K. Townsend at Big Spring, Mo., 

 records that 4 " We then gave up the pursuit, and turned our 

 attention to the turkies, which were rather numerous in the thicket. 

 They were shy, as usual, and, when started from their lurking 

 places, ran away like deer, and hid themselves in the underwood. 



1 Flint, T. Recollections pf the Last Ten Years Passed in Occasional Residences 

 and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi. Boston, 1826, p. 248. 



2 Latrobe, C. J. The Rambler in North America. 1832-1833, 2 vols. New 

 York, 1835, Vol. I, p. 100. 



s Early Western Travels, XXII, pp. 240 (orig. p. 113) 241 (114), 247 (117); 

 XXIV, pp. 107 (465), 120 (472). 

 * ibid., XXI, p. 129 (orig. p. 16). 



