TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Karen R.
TI  - Epiphany in the wilderness: hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West 
AV  - SK45 .J73 2015
U1  - 639/.10978 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Boulder
PB  - University Press of Colorado
KW  - Hunting
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Hunting in literature
KW  - Hunting in art
KW  - Hunters
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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ER  -