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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Gary Lewis / The Bulletin
September 15, 2005
Two hundred years ago, the first European hunters spent a long, wet winter in Oregon. Meriwether Lewis, familiar with the whitetail deer in his home state of Virginia, was the first to describe western mule deer and blacktails for science. And on Feb. 19, 1806, the Lewis & Clark journals....