His variety of food is almost unending-he loves buckwheat, beaked nuts, pecans, various kinds of grass seeds, and Indian corn.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
You, Francois, who every year eat such quantities of shell-bark nuts, and pecans, and red mulberries, too!
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid
The umbrageous canopy of the pecans protects the encamped warriors from the fervid rays of a noonday sun, striking vertically down.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid