I: Thinking about animals. Chickwallop and the strange beast: Indians and animals in early America -- The deer with the red collar: English ideas about animals -- II: Settling with animals. The company of cattle: domestication and colonization -- The wild gangs of the Chesapeake: livestock husbandry in the south -- A world of pastures and pounds: raising livestock in early New England -- III: Contending with animals. Forgiving trespasses: living with livestock in early America -- A prophecy fulfilled: from cooperation to the displacement of Indians -- Epilogue. Full circle
Summary
In keeping livestock, early American settlers inadvertently laid the groundwork for expansionism, as shown in a fascinating look at the earliest conflicts between the American colonists and the Native Americans, conflicts that had their roots in the domestication of animals
