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THE AMERICAN FIELD 
 
 
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and finally got a fire started, calling to Delly all of camp this morning
and catch a mess of fish for us, coyotes in a bunch, but the second year
these ani- 
the time. We did not know where we were, how    and Harry gave his orders
for six quail, as he mals were thinned out. There were a good many 
far we were from camp or in which direction camp intended giving us a quail
fricassee for dinner, and people buffalo hunting who killed the coyotes for

was.                                               six birds would be enough.
Mack, Delly and I their skins. 
  Harry finally said that he would make one more walked out from camp and
after a couple of hours  "We really came a lot farther out than necessary

attempt to find the river, and if he found that we of hunting not over a
mile from camp got ten birds to kill the buffaloes, but we had lots of fun.
There 
]knew that we could eventually get back to camp. and came back to camp, where
we found Harry and  were tens of thousands of buffaloes everywhere. 
Mack and I sat down, bemoaning our fate and won- Doc cleaning a fine mess
of white perch and black When we got tired of one place we would move to

dering just how far we had gotten Into the woods. bass they had just caught
out of the river.   another. We made houses of poles, covered with 
  In about ten minutes we heard a whoop from      This gave us another wonderful
meal, and Harry's buffalo hides, lined and floored with the same. The 
Harry, saying that he had found the river. Mack fricassee was just about
the best meal that we had   second Winter we came out here there were thirty-

and I worked our way to him, Mack in the lead, with on the trip. The first
night that we were in camp two of us from Brown County, and I killed 365

me following in my slippers and pajamas. After we were afraid that we would
not get enough birds buffalo that Winter myself. I didn't do anything but

getting to the river we were in doubt as to which for supper, so we got from
Mr. Singleton, on whose hunt. 
way to go, but by lighting a match and throwing a lands we were camping,
a young brown leghorn hen,  "The first Winter we loaded our wagons with

piece of stick in the river we ascertained which way which we found that
Harry and Doc had also dressed 
was down the river. Then we knew that we would for this final meal. She proved
to be the fattest meat. We took yearlings and two-year-olds and 
eventually get back to camp, yelling and whooping and finest chicken that
I have ever seen and Harry dried their hams whole. We brought a wash kettle

all the time, getting no response from Delly.   served her baked. Some meal!
                        along with us and rendered up thirty-two kettles

  At about 2 a. m. we finally wandered into camp,  When we left camp for
Eunice that evening all full of marrow and tallow. This got so hard that

finding Delly snugly tucked away In his cot, sound of us felt that we would
never want anything to eat you could throw It around like a chunk of wood.

asleep. We asked him if he had not heard us, and again, but right now, while
writing this in my office We would take an axe, break the bones and then

he said that he had heard us every time we had in Eunice, and thinking of
the wonderful trip that scrape the marrow out. The marrow and tallow 
yelled, "but I thought that you and old Mack were we had, I feel that
I would give almost as much for were used for cooking, making soap and the
like. 
out there just playing."                           any one of those
meals as "Uncle Bim" offered while We killed enough buffaloes to
furnish the people of 
  Among other things, I told him that In the morn- shipwrecked on his way
back to Australia. While Brown County with meat all the next year. Twelve

ing when the sun came up I wanted him to show   on this three-day trip, six
of us, we killed and ate months afterward the meat would be as hard as a

all of us just what kind of game he thought Mack something over fifty quail
and feel that we certainly stone on the outside, but good and fresh when
cut 
and I were playing out in the swamp from 9 p. m. got all that we could eat.
We were entitled legally into. We didn't salt our meat. The majority of the

until 2 a. m. with me dressed only in my pajamas. to over 250 birds, but
feel that we got all that we meat we cut in big chunks, as large as a ten-pound

I have never been given a demonstration of that wanted.                 
                            bucket, and dried. Some of it we carried back
in 
game, but now, whenever I see Delly, even on the  We would go out and hunt
a short while each day, the whole hams. 
streets of our little town, and I give him a whoop, have splendid work with
our dogs, enjoyed ourselves "We killed lots of buffalo at first that
were poor. 
I automatically get an answer.                     to the utmost and satisfied
the most ravenous appe- The hair of a poor buffalo is brown, but that of
a 
  But to get to our hunting trip. Our huiiting season tites, and are looking
forward to a repetition of the fat one is black, and the fatter the buffalo
the 
opened with a very rainy day, and it rained most trip the latter part of
the season of 1933.    blacker the hair gets. 
of the time during the season, so that we had not  The trip was most gratifying
to both Harry and  "The coyotes would come right up to within 
been able to take the trip. In the meantime our myself, as we both had young
dogs, Pat and Beckv, twenty or thirty steps of our camp and sit there 
party was augmented by the addition of Prof. Gordon which we wanted to give
some experience, and we and howl while we were getting supper. My brother,

Dugal, principal of the Eunice high school, and Dr. certainly did, hunting
them three days in succession. Noah, got lost one night, and it was fearful
cold. 
J. A. Dupleichen, one of our most prominent dentists, several hours each
day. These dogs are all fast and He covered himself up with sage grass, and
the 
  It was agreed that we should leave Eunice on wide and not a sing]     
      during the three 
Saturday morning, February 13, and hunt Saturday, days' hunt    -led for
them       erved the   coyotes pulled it off of him two or three times. He

Sunday and Monday, the latter the last day of the fresh     n    al eachi
evening, afte  e  y's was scared to shoot at them because the Indians 
season. Harry and I -took our dogs, Jake, Queen hu    nd they would sleep
all night long, s  e of were so thick. But he finally shot at them two or

and Becky (mine) and Pat and Queen (Harry's) and   m. in bed with us. Queen
sle  with me a  of three times. 
the tent, along with our hunting paraphernalia,  the time and Pat and Queen
Tyson slept in        "At another time the same Winter three of us 
went direct to the camping spot and estab                it.            
                            had been hunting and everything was covered with

camp, after which we hunted in the imk diate                            
                             -___w________'____ snow. We had been doing some
skinning, dark over- 
neighborhood of the camp. Doc and Mack went                             
                             ook us and my brother came near freezing. Finally

together with their dogs, Lady, Belle and Nellie, and BUFFALO HUNTER OF PIONEER
DAYS             e got down and couldn't get up. We took the 
Gordon and Delly paired off with Bessie and Bozo.    TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES
                  hide off a buffalo and wrapped him up in it. 
_____________andI______    o _____________________                      
                               "I  ki~lling the bfaoswp__used needie
guns 
much success it commenced to rain and we started  One of the few men stillliving
who hunted buf- and it csfL uslive ce-l;s a sh  We me two fellows 
back to camp, and when we got there we found Delly faloes for their meat
in the early seventies is Frank up on the head of the Colorado River the
second year 
and Gordon, and they were starting a big camp fire. M. Sherrod of Tiahoka,
Tex. His first trip to the who had been out two months and hadn't killed
a 
They had had very indifferent success also and the plains region of northwestern
Texas on a buffalo 1.uffalo. They had these 'citizens rifles' and traded

rain had made them leave the hunting grounds for hunting expedition.was before
the wholesale slaugh- us some tobacco to kill some buffaloes for them. 
'amn   A littip lateri flno Land M~aok namne in with a                  
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few more birds. 
  We found that we had a total of sixteen quail, 
which we proceeded to prepare for our supper. 
Harry cooked us a wonderful quail gumbo, while 
Delly cooked the rice, Mack toasted the bred and 
the rest of us kept the fire going and did other neces- 
sary, chores around camp. 
  The next morning, Sunday, Mack got us out of our 
cots about 6 a. m. and he and Gordon served us for 
breakfast good old home-made sausage, scrambled 
eggs, Louisiana drip coffee, black enough to stain 
the china coffee cups, and toast. 
  After breakfast Harry and I loaded our dogs In 
his car and doubled back towards Eunice about five 
miles, where we had previously located several 
bevies of quail. The rest of the party, getting into 
Gordon's car, went west about five miles to the 
town of Reeves, Mack and Doc going to Bear Creek 
and Delly and Gordon hunting north of Reeves. 
  Harry and I found three nice bevies, getting seven 
birds out of the first, five out of the second and four 
out of the last. This being a small bevy we did 
not follow same up, preferring to leave seed for 
next season. 
  We were the first back to camp, so we made a 
good fire and had coffee ready when the other fel- 
lows got in. They had eleven birds between them, 
 
 
not haying sucn very good luck. we nad another 
splendid meal cooked by Harry, consisting of snioth-                    
                 A HERD OF BUFFALO 
ered quail, with plenty of nice rich gravy and rice, ter of the animals for
their hides began. As a We went out and killed about fifteen for them. 
corn-bread, by Gordon, and the usual coffee, with  means of preserving Mr.
Sherrod's reminiscences of  "There were lots of Indians out here the
first 
pound cake for dessert, daioneer days, J. E. Haley, field representative
of the year. We left our camp many times and would 
  This was Gordon's last day with us, as he had to Panhandle-Plains Historical
Society, visited Sherrod look back and see the Indians sitting on the tops

duties as head of the Eunice high school. We were  and obtained from him
an account of his buffalo of our wagons and moving around our camp. They

all sorry to see him leave, he being one of our most hunting experiences.
One of the interesting state- never would bother anything except something
to 
agreeable campers, and he took home with him    ments made by Mr. Sherrod
was that in 1875 buf- eat, or our mules. We had to guard them every 
several nice quail for Mrs. Dugal.                 faloes were killed in
great numbers for their night." 
  Monday morning Mack was on the job at about tongues, which: were considered
a delicacy by many 
the usual time with the sausage and coffee, but Delly epicures.         
                                DYNAMOS THREAT TO HUNTING 
said that he did not like Gordon's scrambled eggs  "I was just a boy
and was out here on the buffalo 
so much, as he had left out one of the principal range in 1874 and 1875,"
he said. "I was seventeen  Hunters throughout the United States are
faced 
ingredients and it was unanimously agreed that years old when I came out
the first time, having with a grave problem that threatens the future of

Delly prepare the scrambled eggs, which he pro- been born in 1856.      
                            their sport, according to facts brought to light
in 
ceeded to do, and gave us a most appetizing dish,  "We came out from
Brown County, about two a hearing before the Federal Power Commission, at

but we all agreed that he gave us scrambled onions hundred miles to the east,
and there were only five Washington, D. C., September 29, upon the appli-

with a few eggs in It.                             of us the first time.
We hunted for meat. That cation of the Santee-Cooper Hydro-Electric project

  Harry and Doc said that they wanted to stay in   year you could see two
hundred and three hundred on an amendment to use the waters of these two

 
 
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