E-tuk-i-shook and Ah-we-lah regarded fox hams as quite a delicacy-a delicacy which I never willingly shared when there were musk tenderloins about.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Twice had I, in the thick of the woods, come on the half-flayed and mangled carcasses which had been left to waste or to feed the wolves after tenderloins and haunches had been cut away.
"Cedric, the Forester"
Bernard Gay Marshall
Turning round to the astonished officers, who had by this time caught up, I said: "Now, gentlemen, allow me to present you with all the tongues and tenderloins from these animals that you want."
"An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)"
Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)