The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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A BIG EAGLE
By S. C. Turnbo
One of my accounts relating to eagles was furnished me by Mr. G. W. Thurman which is the following.
"I was in an ox wagon on my way to Alex Hogan’s who lived on White
River below Forsyth in Taney County, Mo. A number of settlers had collected
at Mr. Hogan’s to catch fish in the river with a seine and I was going
down there to assist them and bring some of the fish back home with me in
the wagon. While I was driving the slow moving cattle through the river
bottom just below the old Ben Major’s mill place and near six miles
above the mouth of Bee Creek I noticed an enormous bird rise up from a sloo
of water and fly up into a large sycamore tree and alight in the top of
it. I seen now that it was a grey eagle. I had a small rifle gun with me
and halting the oxen I took aim at it with the little gun and shot it. To
my surprise I killed it. I found it to be the largest eagle I ever saw and
measured nine feet across the spread of its wings. I taken the bird with
me to where the fishermen were and they all said that it was an unusually
large eagle."
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