deer-driving

Updated: June 20, 2025

While I was on the frontier I was struck by the fact that of the men from the eastern States or from England who had shown themselves at home to be good riders to hounds or had made their records as college athletes, a larger proportion failed in the life of the wilderness than was the case among those who had gained their experience in such rough pastimes as mountaineering in the high Alps, winter caribou-hunting in Canada, or deer-stalking not deer-driving in Scotland.

Theodore Roosevelt - Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches