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1 online resource |
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Introduction : the West, storytelling animals, and the hunt as performance -- Act 1: Actors and agents : the cultural ecology of hunter's paradise. Masculinity, the 'strenuous life', and the genealogy of the hunter hero -- The voice of the Winchester and the martial culture of the hunt -- Lady adventurers and crack shots : hunter heroines in the nineteenth-century American West -- Act 2: 'The after life' of the hunt : story, image and trophy. Landscapes of testimony : performing the game trail in literature, art, and photography -- Staging the game trail : the theatrical wild -- The soul in the skin : taxidermy and the reanimated -- Act 3: Saving the hunting frontier. Conservation, wild things, and the end of the hunting trail -- Heretical visions and hunter's paradise redux -- Preservation and performance : an afterword to the after-life |
| Summary |
"Stories of grand adventure and hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Jones explores social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting using performance as trail guide and production of a '"cultural ecology of the chase"' in art and taxidermy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hunting -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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Hunting -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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Hunting in literature -- History -- 19th century
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Hunting in art -- History -- 19th century
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Hunters -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Hunters
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Hunting
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Hunting in art
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Hunting in literature
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Hunting -- Social aspects
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781607323983 |
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1607323982 |
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