FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1921 
THE WHITETAIL DEER 
The whitetail deer is now, as it always has been, the most 
plentiful and most widely distributed of American big game. It 
holds its own in the land better than any other species, because it 
is by choice a dweller in the thick forests and swamps, the places 
around which the tide of civilization flows, leaving them as islets 
of refuge for the wild creatures which formerly haunted all the 
country. The range of the whitetail is from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific, and from the Canadian to the Mexican borders, and some- 
what to the north and far to the south of these limits. The animal 
shows a wide variability, both individually and locally, within 
these confines . — Theodore Roosevelt. 
