On Dec. 11, 1966, a Sunday, 13-year-old Ted Myers was rabbit hunting on his family’s ranch off Colorado Highway 317 near Hamilton when he happened upon a unique discovery.
He hurried home and phoned Hayden Valley Press photographer Nick DeLuca. Upon his arrival at the Myers ranch, Nick DeLuca proceeded to photograph what would become the most famous picture of his journalism career.
“Death Duel,” as he later called it, depicts two 4-point mule deer bucks that locked horns while fighting during the rut and died straddling a wire fence.
The image is the inspiration for a new exhibit coming soon to the Museum of Northwest Colorado, 590 Yampa Ave., in Craig, where the locked horns have resided for the last 21 years.
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