180 AUTUMN NOTES IN IOWA 



1875. 10. Hunt in morn, and kill 1 gob. Turkey 17 

 pounds. 



1875. 16. Snow. I killed a turkey and he got away 

 from me on Summer Creek ; and shot 1 q. and 1 dove. 



1878. 27. Hunt some in C. Bottom; shot at and 

 wounded a turkey, it flew over the creek at Clay Bluff 

 I too tired to follow it. 



1887. 16. Chop and split up a cherry tree west of 

 little meadow (it being a sprout from a tree I chopped 

 down when I lived in the old house. Made 14 rails out 

 of said tree.) Chop some stakes and stake some fence. 



1887. 19. Wind blowing very hard, has blown our 

 cornshocks do^Mi, about 80 of them scattered all over field. 

 I look around field, found some rails blown off fence. I 

 cut 2 linn trees down by road fence, then John and I 

 tried to haul the scattered fodder; hauled 1 load, the 

 wind blew so hard we quit. 



1906. 20. To traps and brought all 7 traps in. 

 SNOW % in. deep, the first ; it fell yesterday eve. 



IV. HISTORICAL DATA 



1804. Floyd's Journal written. 



1805. Pike's Expedition up the Mississippi. 



1834. Black Hawk^s AiU Ohio graph y. L . . .^s Journ- 

 al of Marches of Dragoons (written.) 



1836. Edwin James came to Iowa. Lea's Notes on 

 Wisconsin Territory. 



1839. Kneeland's Letters from Saluhria. 



1841. Newhall's Sketches of Iowa. 



1843. Audubon in Iowa. 



