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100 1 _aJones, Karen R.,
_d1972-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEpiphany in the wilderness :
_bhunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West /
_cKaren R. Jones.
264 1 _aBoulder :
_bUniversity Press of Colorado,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c2015
300 _a1 online resource (379 pages) :
_billustrations
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHunting
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aHunting
_xSocial aspects
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aHunting in literature
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aHunting in art
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aHunters
_zWest (U.S.)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aJones, Karen R.
_tEpiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West.
_dBoulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
_hxiii, 363 pages ; 24 cm
_z9781607323976
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4415138
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