The hunter elite : manly sport, hunting narratives, and American conservation, 1880-1925 / Tara Kathleen Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Tara Kathleen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Big game hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]

Summary:

"Kelly delves deeply into an impressive array of stories published by sportsmen-writers at the turn of the twentieth century. She offers an eye-opening explanation for sport hunters' influential positions at the forefront of the conservation movement."-Annals of Iowa.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One. Tales of the Sportsman-Hunter

1. "What Luxury It Is": Elite Hunting Enters the Gilded Age

2. Fall of the Workplace, Rise of the Hunt

3. Making Meaning Out of Moose: Constructing the Hunting Narrative

4. The Business of Narrative

5. Whitney Rising

Part Two. Fellow Travelers

6. Diana's Own: Women and the Big-Game Hunt

7. Sportsmen of the Breed: British and American Hunters

Part Three. Discourse and Consequences

8. Stories of Guides and Gunbearers

9. Dreaming of Howley: Conservation and the Uses of Discourse

10. The End of the Hunt: Conservation and the Limits of Discourse

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2589-5

OCLC:

1061139564