Transcription KeyIowa Hunting Journal (MS-647)
Please note:
While putting together the transcription, we tried to include allpunctuation, spellings, use of capital letters, and writing styles the author used in the journal, such as his use of long dashes and lines throughout the text. Each line of thetranscription corresponds to a line in the journal. Page numbers, starting with the backof the front cover, are in brackets at the end of each page's transcription. There are listsand notes at both the beginning and end of the journal; these were scanned but nottranscribed.
Transcription style, marks and symbols:
-------: used in transcription when author uses a line, with no text attached[word?]: used in transcription when it is not entirely clear what the original word is, butthe word in the brackets is our closest guess to the correct word.[word]: a word in brackets without a question mark means we are almost certain wehave the right word, but it is possible we are mistaken[illegible]: a word is illegibleword: a word is crossed out in the text[illegible]: a word is crossed out and illegible[…]: words are smudged or in another way illegible? within a word: substituted for an unclear or smudged letter
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: text in italics within brackets are notes we have inserted, such as the pagenumbers we have assigned to the journal
Abbreviations and our best guess at their corresponding complete words:
Please note: as can be seen below, the author often just uses the first letter of a word.Context usually allows the reader to know what the letter stands for, but some of themore common uses of this type of abbreviation are given below.OC: used for o’clock, sometimes written in capitals, sometimes just one letter iscapitalized, or there may be periods after one or both lettersH: often stands for horses, but sometimes stands for house, and is occasionally usedfor a travelling companion
B: often stands for bread or breakfast, sometimes for Buffalo fishB. fish: buffalo fishP: often stands for prairieC.C.: Charles CityC: often used for cityS: used for shoulderPrairie C. or P.C.: prairie chickenSweet 16 or sixteen: nickname he uses to refer to his gun
Some of the odd spellings and their most probable current spellings:
ear: used for errblue: blewAlagona: AlgonaEmmitsburg: EmmetsburgBuffalow: buffaloCrains: cranes
Handwriting style:
“t” is almost always not crossed, but the cross mark is located over a later letter“n” and “m”are sometimes written as flat lines when they come at the end of a word
TranscriptionIowa Hunting Journal (MS-647)
[Please see the journal or the scanned version for the lists found before the narrative portion of the journal. Page numbers are not found in the journal itself, but were assigned for ease of use.]
Wednesday Mar 29packed boat early in themorning Started at6 for the west from C.C.on a Hunting [tour?] shotat a flock of Crains about7 OC. loaded my S. 16with 16 R got several shotsduring the A.m. passedthrough a splendidC. at [10 OC.] H. gotgot a splendid shotand got a P. C. at12 OC. found us hauledup for dinner ona high bluff push throughand our side of thelittle iowa of R. lifehere we unhitchedour team fastened
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them to side of theboat used for a wagonbox gave then suitablefeed and prepairedfor our [own] well fantook our [grain boys?]what was filled withfood sufficient to [last]for a day or two seatedourselves on the sideof the bluff while the
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Iowa Hunting Journal, circa 1871-1874 (transcript)
The name and background of the author of the journal is unknown, although from the journal one learns that he lives either near or in Charles City, Iowa. Before his occupation while writing the journal (which…
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