Remember When This Was Big News?

I can remember a time when there were no deer around here.  I can also remember a time (this morning) when deer were so thick they came into the garden and ate our sweet potatoes.  When did this change?  I can't remember when I saw my first deer.

I know though that when this fellow killed this buck in the late 40s or early 50s, it was a major event.  This picture probably appeared in the newspaper.

I asked Buddy Baker about when he saw his first deer. "My Uncle Ralph Baker lived out in California. Once when he came to visit in the 1930s, he brought a deer hide and hung it up on the wall.  Everybody came to see it. That was really something.

"Now I hate all the deer and the conservation agents that brought them back!" (The sweet potato incident has him upset. He'll calm down.)

Leave a message in the comment section if you know anything about this picture or if you'd like to share your own deer story.