Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / [electronic resource] :
Karen R. Jones.
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"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"--
9781607323983 1607323982
Hunters--History--West (U.S.)--19th century. Hunting in art--History--West (U.S.)--19th century. Hunting in literature--History--West (U.S.)--19th century. Hunting--Social aspects--History--West (U.S.)--19th century. Hunting--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.