You are right, I went back and re-read it, it was NOT a Bald Eagle- I just assumed all the Eagles were protected- what strikes me as strange, if it was legal then to shoot a Golden Eagle and then sell the feathers to the area Indians (as EH apparently did) why use a .22 and then run a wounded one down and grap its legs-- I'd sooner go 15 rounds as a sparring partner for Mike Tyson on a day when he is really pissed off, not just moderately pissed off.

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..