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Gass -- who by now has been elected sergeant to take poor Floyd's place -- in his _Journal_ says they killed thirteen common deer, two blacktailed, three buffalo, and a 'goat' that day -- not a half bad day, that, eh?
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890
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Well, they at that time overlapped the range of the buffalo, the elk, the blacktailed deer, the badger, the antelope, the prairie dog, and the magpie.
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890
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Along the entire route we found an abundance of green grass at sheltered places in the valleys, and also large quantities of game, especially blacktailed deer, bear, and elk.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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In the bushes, along the stream in this valley, the blacktailed deer (Cervus macrourus) is abundant.
Townsend Chapter 7 1839
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At one time they were upon high plains, like platforms among the mountains, with herds of buffaloes roaming about them; at another among rude rocky defiles, broken into cliffs and precipices, where the blacktailed deer bounded off among the crags, and the bighorn basked in the sunny brow of the precipice.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836
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At one time they were upon high plains, like platforms among the mountains, with herds of buffaloes roaming about them; at another among rude rocky defiles, broken into cliffs and precipices, where the blacktailed deer bounded off among the crags, and the bighorn basked in the sunny brow of the precipice.
Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821
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At the distance of eighteen miles the Missouri makes a considerable bend to the southeast: the game is very abundant, the common, and mule or blacktailed deer, elk, buffaloe, antelope, brown bear, beaver, and geese.
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There are but few elk or blacktailed deer in this neighbourhood, and as the common red-deer secrete themselves in the bushes when alarmed, they are soon safe from the arrows, which are but feeble weapons against any animals which the huntsmen cannot previously run down with their horses.
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As usual we are surrounded by buffaloe, elk, common and blacktailed deer, beaver, antelopes and wolves.
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John Sheilds returned a little after six P.M. with two deer which he had killed. these were also of the blacktailed fallow deer; there appears to be no other speceis of deer in these mountains.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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