Field notes, v1512
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Palmer 1934 Odocoileus hemionus July 28 Peterson Creek, 7000 ft., Shoshone Mts. Lander Co. Picked the skull of a buck that had been lassoed around the antlers. The rope had become entangled slightly in a small bush and the deer had then walked around a tree, effectively snubbing it. Evidence that the deer had stayed alive some time, was found in the wearing of the 5/8" cotton rope nearly thru where it was snubbed. Also, the rope had cut clear thru the bark of the aspen to the wood. We later learned that an Indian had wounded a deer in the next canyon the year before. He ran out of ammunition but managed to get a rope on the deer's horns. He then tied it and went to get help to bring it out but it broke away while he was gone. This deer is probably the same one -