My Grandpa grew up working in the loggin camps in the early 1900's and he tells me that in the camps the loggers meals were mostly potatoes, rutabeggas and carrots suplemented with deer, bear, beaver and muskrat. I read once that the person who named the muskrat ruined the animal for table fare. If it would have been called the swamp rabbit or something like that we would be eating it in fancy restaurants today.