Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West

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

Author/creator	Jones, Karen R., 1972-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
Copyright Notice	©2015
Description	xiii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Hunting--West (U.S.) --History --19th century. Hunting--Social aspects --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.

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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2015011285
ISBN	9781607323976 (cloth)
ISBN	1607323974 (cloth)
ISBN	(ebook)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	SK45 .J73 2015	✔ Available	Place Hold