Antlers taken by Hunter S. Thompson return to Hemingway home

By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson so admired a set of elk antlers at the Idaho home of literary icon Ernest Hemingway, he took them.

More than half a century later, the antlers have been returned.

Jenny Emery Davidson of the Ketchum Community Library says Thompson’s widow, Anita Thompson, gave back the antlers earlier this month, saying her husband regretted stealing them.

The library helps catalog and preserve items in Hemingway’s Ketchum home.

In 1964, Thompson came to Idaho to write about why his hero shot and killed himself at the residence three years earlier at age 61.

In the story, Thompson noted the antlers over the front door but never mentioned taking them. They hung in his garage in Colorado for decades.

They’ve since been sent to a Hemingway grandson.

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