Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Animals and the Place -- The State of Things: Wildlife, Land, and People after 1870 -- Thinking about Animals -- Some Perspectives on Animal Behaviour -- Friends and Foes -- Connections -- A Pursuit of Utility: The State and Wildlife -- Eating Wild Animals -- Hunting as Sport: Ideals and Practice -- Reconstructing Nature: Acclimatizing Animals for the Wild -- It's a War: Farming and Wildlife -- First Nations, the State, and the Economy of Wildlife -- Economics and Nostalgia: Encounters with Fur-Bearers -- The Spectacle of Nature: Wildlife and the National Parks -- Rounding Out a Full Life: Traditions of Natural History -- Displaying Wild Animals -- Conclusion: Fitting and Not Fitting Together -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870