mule deer

"This" was the carcase of a mule-deer, which lay in the hollow in which Steve wanted to camp.

Upon it roams the buffalo, the prong-horned antelope, and the mule-deer.

But so long as there are homesteaders to be fended from the hill borders, the mule-deer will come back.

Lingering along the snow-line in the mountains, and ascending and descending with it, is a species of deer known as the mule-deer.