author
Charles L. Jordan
d. 1909
Drawn from decades in the Louisiana outdoors, these pages reflect the experience of a hunter and field observer who knew wild turkeys at close range. His work helped shape one of the early classic books on the bird and its habits.
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The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting
by Edward Avery McIlhenny, Charles L. Jordan
About the author
Little is firmly documented online about this author beyond his connection to The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, a book published in 1914 with Edward Avery McIlhenny. Library and public-domain book records identify him as Charles L. Jordan and note that he died in 1909.
Booksellers' and archival descriptions consistently portray him as an experienced turkey hunter and field man in Louisiana, and say that much of the material for The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting was written before his death. That gives his writing a practical, firsthand quality: it comes out of close observation rather than armchair theory.
Because confirmed biographical details are scarce, the safest way to remember him is as an early outdoors writer whose knowledge lived on through a landmark book about the wild turkey, completed and published after his death.