Battle With a Stag

Reprint of this story from the November 14, 1985 issue of The Platte Valley Lyre brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

W.B. Cowan, of the Pick outfit, has been for several years the owner of a half dozen deer. The animals leave his ranch and stay in the mountains all summer, returning home every winter, and are therefore only partially tamed. One of them, a stag, has been wandering about near town for some days, the bell on his neck protecting him from the hunter.

Yesterday afternoon J. J. Mullison saw the deer in his pastu...