New | Hemingway home gets back trophy antlers stolen by ‘gonzo’ journalist Hunter S. Thompson
Literary icons Hemingway and Thompson both die of suicide by shooting themselves
A young Hunter S. Thompson went to Idaho to write about Ernest Hemingway and decided to take a piece of his hero home with him — a set of trophy elk antlers.
More than half a century later, the gonzo journalist’s wife returned the antlers to Hemingway’s house in the mountain town of Ketchum.
“One of the stories that has often been told over the years is the story of Hunter S. Thompson taking the antlers,” said Jenny Emery Davidson of Ketchum Community Library. “These are two great literary figures who came together over the item of the antlers.”
Davidson was there on August 5 when Thompson’s widow, Anita Thompson, gave back the antlers she says her husband regretted taking.
Hemingway’s house is owned by The Nature Conservancy, which has an agreement with the library to help catalogue and preserve items in the residence where the author took his own life.
