The Coues Deer; Very Small, But A Very Big Prize

The Coues Deer; Very Small, But A Very Big Prize

Frontier Army surgeon, naturalist and hunter, Dr. Elliott Coues, never actually collected a Coues deer. In 1874, Dr. Joseph Rothrock, another Army Surgeon, collected and saved two specimens from the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Arizona. He stated correctly that...
ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

Many of you may have heard Coues deer or the name Elliott Coues mispronounced as coos, cooz, cooeys or something else other than properly as “cows,” as in “wait ’til the cows come home.”  Here in Arizona, he is known as the namesake of the diminutive but highly prized...