294 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 



Creoles who served the American Fur Company about 

 1850 or earlier, and who married Sioux women. 



Through the kindness of Colonel Hugh L. Scott, 

 superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, I am 

 enabled to give the most northerly definite record of 

 the wild turkey on the Missouri River of which I 

 have any knowledge. Colonel Scott, learning of my 

 interest in this subject, recalled that more than twenty 

 years ago General D. L. Magruder, U. S. A. (retired), 

 had told him of killing wild turkeys near Fort Ran- 

 dall, Dakota, in 1855. He therefore wrote to General 

 Magruder and received from him a letter dated Sep- 

 tember 6, 1909, as follows : 



"From July, 1855, to October, 1860, I was stationed 

 at the different garrisons along that stream [the upper 

 Missouri River] from old Fort Pierre Chouteau to Fort 

 Randall. 



"On December 17, 1855, I accompanied General 

 Harney upon a hard winter's march, from Fort Pierre 

 Chouteau to the mouth of the Niobrara River. The 

 march was by land as far as the present site of Fort 

 Randall, where we were compelled by heavy snowdrifts 

 in the ravines to abandon the prairie and take to the 

 ice upon the river, where the march was continued, 

 both going and returning, until our arrival back at 

 Fort Pierre, February 17, 1856. 



"During the trip, both going and returning, I killed 

 deer, rabbits, grouse and turkeys to supply our mess, 

 rinding each of the kinds of game in plenty and quite 

 fat in most of the heavily timbered points along both 



