Deer Hunter Rides Enraged Buck Nine Miles

Kingston, New York, 1913

NERVY HUNTER RIDES A BUCK NINE MILES

Kingston, Nov. 15—Vernon Rider, of this town had a thrilling adventure while hunting deer yesterday when he rode nine miles through the dense forest on the back of an enraged buck.

After following the animal for several hours Rider got a shot at the buck and missed. The deer was in an open space and charged. Rider did not dare run and stood for the buck, which rushed head down at him.

To keep from being gored Rider seized the enraged animal by the antlers and the deer's head in rising threw the hunter astride the back. Locking his feet under the stomach of the buck Rider held on to the antlers.

The buck plunged into the forest and as Rider could not let go his hold he was carried, as near as he could estimate, about nine miles. The infuriated animal tried to throw the unwelcome rider and brushed against trees and rocks. Rider's clothes were torn to shreds, but he held fast.

Peter B. Markle, an old hunter, saw the deer coming with Rider and he fired a heavy ball through the animal's fore shoulder. The buck fell and Rider landed in the branches of a spruce tree. He was badly bruised.

The buck was old and savage, had four prongs on the antlers and weighed more than 200 pounds.

—Orange County Times-Press, Middletown, New York, November 18, 1913, page 5.