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Author:

Jones, Karen R., 1972- author.

Title:

Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen R. Jones.

Publisher:

University Press of Colorado,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hunting--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
Hunting--History--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
Hunting in literature--History--19th century.
Hunting in art--History--19th century.
Hunters--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
Hunters.
Hunting.
Hunting in art.
Hunting in literature.
Hunting--Social aspects.
United States, West.
1800 - 1899
History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1607323974
9781607323976

OCLC:

(OCoLC)913957387

LCCN:

2015011285

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)