Elk Antlers Returned To Hemingway Estate 52 Years Later

Elk antlers owned by Ernest Hemingway have been returned to his mountain home in Ketchum, Idaho, 52 years later by the wife of Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson, who died in 2005, had stolen them from the home while writing about the novelist shortly after Hemingway’s death in 1961. Thompson had hung the antlers on a wall in his garage in Aspen, Colorado.

“He was embarassed that he took them,” Anita Thompson told The Associated Press. “He was young, it was 1964, and he got caught up in the moment.” Yahoo! News has the rest of the story. Anita Thompson (left) with Jenny Emery Davidson and Scott Burton pose with Ernest Heminingway’s stolen elk antlers. photo credit: Christina Jensen/The Community Library via AP