The hunter's game poachers and conservationists in twentieth-century America /
This book takes a new look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico to Blackfeet in Montana, local hunters' trad...
| Main Author: | Warren, Louis S. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series: |
Yale historical publications.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Going West: Wildlife, Frontier, and the Commons
- 1.
- Killing of Seely Houk
- 2.
- Boon and Bust: Pennsylvania's Deer Among Sportsmen and Farmers
- 3.
- "Raiding Devils" and Democratic Freedoms: Indians, Ranchers, and New Mexico Wildlife
- 4.
- Tourism and the Failing Forest
- 5.
- Blackfeet and Boundaries at Glacier National Park
- 6.
- Erasing Boundaries, Saving the Range
- Epilogue: Localism, Nationalism, and Nature.