Marion County

In Dallas County, Missouri, in the same decade, teenager Lawson Scribner regularly saw herds of 30 or more deer and flocks of up to 300 turkeys.

At the same time, down in Marion County, Arkansas, W.B. Flippen marveled at the ease of living off the land.

Quote, Such tales of plentiful wildlife continued in some Ozarks places into the 1850s.

Ephraim Greenhall, one of the original settlers of the remote community of Mount Judy in Newton County, Arkansas, remembered killing 72 deer in one year.