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This is an episode in our weekly series titled 'Primary Source Tuesday.' Each Tuesday we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of; other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article; frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century. Today it's 'Whistling Quail: A Legend of the Alsea Indians,' by Fred Lockley, Jr. It was published in the May 1899 issue of The Pacific Monthly, one of the precursor publications that would later merge to form Sunset Magazine.