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Prospects are best for the deer hunter, the most numerous of all big-game hunters in the U.S. The nation's deer population has increased so rapidly in recent years that some experts believe there are more deer in the U.S. today than when the first white man came to North America: an estimated 4,500,000 whitetail deer, mostly in the states east of the Rockies, plus some 3,000,000 bigger mule deer in the western plains and foothills...
...uninitiated, big-game hunting usually connotes Africa and safaris for elephant, lion and swift impala. But the quarry of the U.S. big-game hunter-deer, moose, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goat and bear-can provide thrills and challenges to rival anything in Africa. A Montana bull moose 7 ft. tall and weighing more than 1,000 Ibs. is an adequate stand-in for an elephant. A grizzly bear that can charge 100 yds. to maul a rifleman, even after its heart and lungs have been pierced by a bullet from a .30-caliber rifle, is fully as deadly...
...reason for the deer's increase is man's war on wolves, coyotes and wildcats, the deer's most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...Deer Park's problems are solved in a predictable way, but not before the contents of a madame's memory for sexual oddities has spilled all over the book. (Incidental intelligence, which will cause lifted eyebrows in Europe: after an illicit night, it is the gentleman who makes breakfast.) There is some good recorded speech, and readers of Confidential magazine can brush up their vocabularies. Sample: "Don't panic, love-bucket . . . Get me a small martin...
...piece of Hollywood argot not to be found in The Deer Park is "subpoena envy," which may be defined as the state of mind of the Hollywood liberal who never got called before a committee investigating anything. Author Mailer seems to have a bad case of it. His account of the interrogation by a pair of foul-mouthed goons in the hire of the "Subversive Committee" is calculated to frighten little children. It is bad enough for Mailer to paw every bed on the coast without finding Senator McCarthy underneath...