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, 
finding each of the kinds of game in plenty and quite 
fat in most of the heavily timbered points along both 
