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If You See a Deer

Tyler and Erika look at how deer show up in American mythologies, and the older cultures that form its roots. We talk to a historian about why Americans keep changing our mind about hunters, spy on Daniel Boone’s love life, and ponder stories of shapeshifting deer from medieval England to Indigenous America. Plus, Erika visits a very strange tourist attraction where white deer once hung out with nuclear weapons. Along the way: poetry, Bambi, and more.

Show Notes: The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors is available through books.catapult.co/books/the-age-of-deer/. The poet Sarah Gridley is at poetryfoundation.org/poets/sarah-gridley.

The poem by Sir Walter Scott, “Hunter’s Song,” is at allpoetry.com/Hunter's-Song.

Daniel Justin Herman’s book, Hunting and the American Imagination, is at openlibrary.org/works/OL8869658W/HUNTING_AMERICAN_IMAGINATION#overview.

The Daniel Boone story was published in The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone by Timothy Flint. The Nlaka’pamux story was published in Tales of North American Indians, selected and annotated by Stith Thompson, and the King Arthur story came from John Steinbeck’s The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights.

Deer Haven Park is at deerhavenpark.org/. More info about the Seneca Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice is at http://findingaids.library.umass.edu/ead/mums839.

The Virginia Audio Collective is at virginiaaudio.org.