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83 stories matching deer
- The Sportsman Who Threatened the State Budget to Save His Hounds
B. B. Palmer of King County is accused of telling capitol employees that if they keep lobbying to ban deer hounding, appropriations will suffer.
- A Deadly Error on Lopez Island
A 70-year-old man, a repeat offender in accidental shootings, is critically wounded after being mistaken for a deer in a fern patch.
- The Cowboy of Elliott Bay
A Spokane journalist turns cowboy on the open water, lassoing a fleeing deer from the deck of a Puget Sound steamer.
- The Vashon Island Deer Hunting Loophole
A local justice dismisses a case against hunters because the state legislature accidentally excluded deer from the law prohibiting the use of hunting dogs.
- The Great Puma Panic: How a Loose Cat and a Lucky Dog Sparked Chaos at Leschi Park
In the early days of Seattle's municipal parks, a puma escaped its cage, chased a terrier into a bear pit, and nearly cost the zookeeper his bones in a brawl that read like a cartoon.
- The Orcas Island Poaching War
Island residents are taking a stand against commercial hunters who are stripping the local deer population bare without contributing to the community.
- The San Juan Huntresses of English Camp
Two young women in the San Juan Islands hunted a deer without a gun, pursuing it by rowboat until they could dispatch it with a knife.
- The Wild Deer of Lake Washington
As the fishing season wanes, local sportsmen find unexpected game within city limits as deer wander into the urban landscape.
- The Hunter and the Cougars
A Skagit County hunter recounts a harrowing, split-second encounter with a pack of cougars while stalking deer in the snow.
- The Tragedy of Mamie's Pet Deer
A pet deer, raised with the freedom of a house cat, is senselessly killed by a hunter in the Skagit Valley.
- The Grizzly at Point Defiance
A silver-tip grizzly escapes its cage at Tacoma's Point Defiance Park, wounding three park employees before being put down to protect the zoo’s deer and elk.
- The Prickly Pear That Changed a Life: How a Boy’s Prank in Iowa Sent Him to Seattle
A local resident reveals the bizarre chain of events that led him from an Iowa farm to the Pacific Northwest, starting with a screwdriver and a pair of boots.
- A Railroad Man's Fatal Fall: The Organizer of Newport's First Commercial Club Dies After a Deer Park Train Accident
Great Northern passenger agent Edward Furness, newly widowed and well known across the district, fell beneath a moving freight train near Deer Park and died at Sacred Heart hospital. He had organized Newport's first Commercial Club.
- The 'Sot Guilty' Scandal: How a Legal Loophole Freed a Murderer in Washington Territory
A detailed account of the chaotic grand jury proceedings in Port Townsend that resulted in the dismissal of an indictment against a man accused of killing his wife, exposing deep flaws in territorial law.
- A Seattle Party Ran Fifteen Deer Into Puget Sound — Then Shot Them From Boats
Vashon Island settlers had let the local deer grow so tame they were a familiar sight. Then one snowy dawn a hunting party came over from Seattle with five hounds and swept the herd into the water.
- The Nimrod of Pioneer Days
A legendary deer hunter, famous for his incredible shooting, falls ill as the city remembers his frontier exploits.
- Two Locked Bucks, One Shot, and a Northport Hunting Tale
A Northport farmer found two whitetail bucks deadlocked by their antlers—one already killed by the other—and brought their heads to town.
- The White Doe of the Cascades: A Rare Albino Captured in the Wilds
A peculiar white deer, killed north of Cascade Valley and brought to Spokane for exhibition, offers a glimpse into the region's untamed wildlife.
- The High-Stakes Weekend Hunt at Lake Washington
A Saturday excursion for deer turned into a chaotic, hilarious, and ultimately bloody race for glory on the lake in 1885.
- A Hunter's Final Trip Near South Yakima
After successfully bagging a deer, a hunter is swept away by the current of the Naches River.
- An Ungrateful Hunter on the Bay
A local man's efforts to help a neighbor land a deer are met with cold indifference.
- A Wall of Smoke and Flame Across Puget Sound
Forest fires from Hood Canal to the Nooksack Valley left dozens of families homeless in 1894, while smoke turned steamboat travel blind and daily life in Seattle into a gray haze.
- The Wood Yard That Taught the City How to Care
In the winter of 1892, a group of Seattle residents turned a South Seattle timber tract into a 'work camp' to provide dignity and bread for the unemployed.
- The Secretary of the Navy Rides a Streetcar and Sees Seattle's Future
Secretary of the Navy Herbert spends a rainy Sabbath touring the proposed Lake Washington ship canal, is dazzled by the view from Broadway, and declares the waterway not only certain but a naval refuge in wartime.
- A Child Hero Killed in Hunting Accident
A fourteen-year-old boy, famous for fighting off a cougar as a child, is shot after being mistaken for a deer near Shelton.
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- The Hunter and the Buck: A Wild Struggle near Port Crescent
A local man's desperate wrestling match with a wounded buck turns into an endurance test.
- The Mountain Lion Hunter of Chelan
A local hunter brings in a massive cougar as regional reports note the predator is terrorizing the deer population.
- The Six-Year Journey Home
A deer hound lost for half a decade miraculously swims back to his master at a Kelso shingle mill.
- The Ghost in the Dusk
A suspected timber wolf triggered a stampede, tearing down fences between neighbors and leaving a trail of questions.
- The Sea-Faring Buck of Blaine
A steamship crew takes a detour five miles offshore to rescue a exhausted deer lost at sea.
- The Venison Peddler of South Tacoma
A Thurston County man finds the local market for illicit game isn't as lucrative as he hoped after a run-in with a game warden.
- A Hunter’s Sudden Tragedy on Chambers Prairie
A young man’s life is cut short in a freak accident while hunting near the Deschutes River.
- The Deadly Perils of Amateur Hunting
A satirical warning about the 'sporting' men of the Pacific Northwest who, in their eagerness to bag big game, frequently mistake their own relatives for deer.