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

Jones, Karen R., authorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher2016-01-222016-01-222015http://hdl.handle.net/10217/170518Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Hunting -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th centuryHunting -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th centuryHunting in literature -- History -- 19th centuryHunting in art -- History -- 19th centuryHunters -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th centuryEpiphany in the wilderness: hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American WestTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.