“Unpleasant Reality”

Buford, a young whitetail buck sporting a modest set of first-year antlers, grew up frolicking in the security of that small clearing. On a fine October morn, the youthful buck crossed the grassy opening on his way to checking a scrape. An unfamiliar, rather two-dimensional deer caught his keen eye. He inched closer and came face to face with the harsh reality of 18th-century wilderness life… Old Northwest Territory, 1796?