1864 -- "Bullfrogs, being a highly relished
luxury, are in great demand in every fashionable restaurant, and demand without a supply would be monstrosity in political
economy. Hence the existence in our midst of that strange rover of the swamps—the Bullfrog Hunter...Turtles also
command a ready sale, their flesh being sold at the restaurants and their shells to the comb manufacturers. From the [NEW
ORLEANS] DAILY PICAYUNE, February 28, 1864, p. 8, c. 1