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Article: Coues in Chihuahua: after a rare desert snowstorm, the Coues deer bucks come out to play.
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- Sports Afield
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- December 1, 2005
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La Sierra del Nido rises nearly two miles above the Chihuahua desert, a dark, brooding mass looming on the horizon for a hundred miles and more. In the nineteenth century--and well into the twentieth these mountains remained an Apache stronghold. Early in the last century it was also Pancho Villa country. This region also held the last of the Mexican grizzly; the smallest and southernmost of the great humpbacked bears persisted in those rugged mountains well into my lifetime.
Some ranchers believe a few grizzlies still survive. I like to believe that they do, but many years have passed without irrefutable proof. But even if the grizzlies are gone, the heights of ...