03270oam 22006254a 450 991079773440332120230310214814.01-4571-9754-51-4571-9752-91-60732-398-2(CKB)3710000000514354(EBL)4415138(SSID)ssj0001570207(PQKBManifestationID)16218574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570207(PQKBWorkID)12454849(PQKB)10677065(MiAaPQ)EBC4415138(OCoLC)929628716(MdBmJHUP)muse47956(EXLCZ)99371000000051435420150713h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEpiphany in the wilderness hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West /Karen R. JonesBoulder :University Press of Colorado,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2016©2015.1 online resource (379 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-60732-397-4 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"--Provided by publisher.HuntersWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHunting in artWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHunting in literatureWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHuntingSocial aspectsWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHuntingWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHuntersHistoryHunting in artHistoryHunting in literatureHistoryHuntingSocial aspectsHistoryHuntingHistory639.10978Jones Karen R.1972-1479482MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910797734403321Epiphany in the wilderness3695622UNINA