Thanks so much for posting. I live in Pioche, Nevada. I love mule deer, and we have our own population of town or resident deer. Certain residents even feed them which is not legal and not a good idea. This summer has been especially neat for me. There are eleven small bucks that congregate with does in the town cemetery. It has been fun to park and watch them just graze, posture, spar, chase each around, and also it has been interesting to watch them munch on a mouthful of apricots and spit out pits. The bigger bucks here are not residents, but they arrive during the rut in late November.
Pioche is a storied mining town of the old west, and during its heyday I don't think the deer were in town (with all the activities associated with mining, I think the town approached 10k population, but today fewerthan 800 live here. My neighbor, who passed away this year, liked to "pay back" deer by keeping a water trough in her back yard. She said that during the Great Depression, when food, money, etc.were scarce, the men would harvest a deer from time to time and share the meat around (most times an illegal kill). There was more than one humorous story of someone's truck parked in front of a local saloon- and they told the patron that he better get his load of wood home before it bled to death!
(here's a couple of pics of our "town deer"):
(they could have used a stronger leash rope to secure their "pet"):-(