1939, Enid Johnson, Anne Merriman Peck,Ho for Californy!:
“Soundswild as a Tuckernuck steer,” he observed. “What brings Peleg here now, Sister Abby? Thee said his last letter told thee of his fine new job ..."
1942, Elizabeth Hollister Frost,This side of land: an island epic, page89:
[…] and went hand over hand, a knife in his teeth —wild as a Tuckernuck steer, Fred was — out the line, cut away the lashings,[…]
1961,Danger to windward, page25:
"Davy was born aswild as a Tuckernuck steer and time ain't chastened him none."
William Francis Macy, Roland B. Hussey (1916)The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, page151: “"Wild as a Tuckernuck Steer"—Wild, harum-scarum. Many beef cattle were formerly raised on Tuckernuck, and their antics, when brought into the gay metropolis of Nantucket town, probably gave rise to this expression.”
