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020			_a9781607323983
020			_a1607323982
020			_z9781607323976 (cloth)
020			_z1607323974
035			_a(OCoLC)929628716
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
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050	0	0	_aSK45 _b.J73 2015
100	1		_aJones, Karen R., _d1972-
245	1	0	_aEpiphany in the wilderness _h[electronic resource] : _b: hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / _cKaren R. Jones.
260			_aBoulder : _bUniversity Press of Colorado, _c2015. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
336			_atext _btxt
337			_acomputer _bc
338			_aonline resource _bcr
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
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.
650		0	_aHunters _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aHunting in art _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aHunting in literature _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aHunting _xSocial aspects _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aHunting _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781607323983/
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 US Regional Studies, West
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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