The Klamath County Museum鈥檚 latest e-mail newsletter contains a 130-year-old clipping from the Daily Astorian newspaper about a man who treed a buck deer. The story goes like this:
鈥淲e have all heard of hunters treeing panthers and 鈥渉oleing鈥� foxes, but the latest in southern Oregon is treeing deer.
鈥淩.K. Sutton reports that squire Parker of the station on Linkville road came in from a hunt the other day 鈥� (looking for) 鈥� axes and help, stating that he had treed a big buck and wanted to cut him out.
鈥淗e had shot the buck when, to his surprise, it took shelter inside of an immense fir log, which had been burned inside until there was nothing left of it but a shell.
鈥淭wo men with axes succeeded in cutting a hole in the tree so that they could kill the buck 鈥�
鈥淭his may sound like a good sized yarn, but it is true.鈥�
The story was featured as a 鈥淗istory Snapshot鈥� in the museum鈥檚 e-mail newsletter, 鈥淭he Midge,鈥� named after Klamath midges, bugs resembling big, biteless mosquitoes that swarm in a mating frenzy from Upper Klamath Lake each summer.
Source: "HISTORY SNAPSHOT 130 YEARS AGO Treeing Deer." The Midge: Cultural Newsletter for the Klamath Basin, 8 Aug. 2018.
