We found a small seasonal camp in the upper reaches of National Creek in the park, and it seemed like it indicated people from the west side were moving in and out of the area.
That’s more likely, too, because I think you find black-tailed deer in the park, don’t you?
Yes.
And I don’t suppose it’s the greatest mule deer habitat on earth up there. They are more of desert deer.
Yes, you see them; at least I’ve seen them, late in the year, and kind of close to the rim. But it isn’t the ideal habitat for them.
Seldon Kirk told me that they would go over into Jackson County to hunt deer. These guys here, they catch these deer in the winter time, you know. There weren’t many deer here at the time of the coming of the Europeans. The deer were pretty darn scarce. If Peter Skene Ogden and his men had not bought dogs from the Indians, why, they might have starved to death.
