“In the1850s, no one ever ate any part of a turkey but its breast, the balance of the meat being thrown to the dogs . . . Ducks and wild pigeons came through the country in countless thousands. Prairie chickens flocked across the plains and the bobwhite quail was always abundant.”

John K. Strecker, Chronicles of George Barnard: The Indian Trader of the Tehuacana and other Bits of Texas History. The Baylor Bulletin, Volume 31, Waco: Baylor University, 1928.