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1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Description based on 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 -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Hunting in art -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Hunters -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Karen R. Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015] xiii, 363 pages ; 24 cm 9781607323976 |
| ISBN |
9781607323976 (cloth) |
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1607323974 (cloth) |
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9781607323983 (e-book) |
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