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Epiphany in the Wilderness

Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By Karen R. Jones

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Publish Date

Dec 15, 2015

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Language

eng

Pages

360

Description:

"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"--