Jalexander
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Well, I scanned the picture and found the letter my grandfather wrote, so here goes:
"I roped this deer Dec. 20, 1948, in Bastrop, Texas, the week before Christmas. Dogs had run this deer into town and it was bayed at a neighbor's house, in a carport. I was called to come and see what could be done. As I approached with my rope in hand the deer ran when the dog came to me. After running several blocks to see which way the deer had gone, I found the deer had jumped a hedge beside a driveway about 10 feet from me. I was running with a loop made in my rope and I threw and caught him. I let him have some slack and he jumped this net wire fence. A black man in the street saw what had happened and he ran up and helped me pull the deer's head into the fence, next to a post. I got over the fence and tied the deer down. By that time someone from the Bastrop Advertiser had come and he took my picture, which appeared in the paper the next week. We leaded the deer into my pickup and carried him out to the Bastrop State Park and turned him loose. I was 34 years old when this happened."
There it is, in his own words. One of these days I should go down to the paper and see if I can get them to run me off a copy of the picture with whatever text accompanied it.
James
"I roped this deer Dec. 20, 1948, in Bastrop, Texas, the week before Christmas. Dogs had run this deer into town and it was bayed at a neighbor's house, in a carport. I was called to come and see what could be done. As I approached with my rope in hand the deer ran when the dog came to me. After running several blocks to see which way the deer had gone, I found the deer had jumped a hedge beside a driveway about 10 feet from me. I was running with a loop made in my rope and I threw and caught him. I let him have some slack and he jumped this net wire fence. A black man in the street saw what had happened and he ran up and helped me pull the deer's head into the fence, next to a post. I got over the fence and tied the deer down. By that time someone from the Bastrop Advertiser had come and he took my picture, which appeared in the paper the next week. We leaded the deer into my pickup and carried him out to the Bastrop State Park and turned him loose. I was 34 years old when this happened."
There it is, in his own words. One of these days I should go down to the paper and see if I can get them to run me off a copy of the picture with whatever text accompanied it.
James