Exactly.

For several years we lived on a 7-acre country place along a creek, with the creek on the south edge of our property and the local highway on the north edge. Along the creek were big patches of brush and some trees, ideal whitetail habitat. Above the highway was "breaky" country, covered with sagebrush, and conifers in the draws, ideal mule deer habitat. Between the creekbottom brush and timber and the highway were the neighbor's hayfields.

When I'd get up in the morning, usually around dawn, would hike up to our mail-box on the highway to pickup the local newspaper. Often both mule deer and whitetails were feeding in the hayfields, and if close enough to me to be alarmed the whitetails ran into the creekbottom cover, and the mule deer bounced across the highway to the steep draws.


“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck