So Great Was the Slaughter : Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas / Buckley T. Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Buckley T., author.

Series:

Nexus (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

NEXUS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--Arkansas--History--20th century.

Wildlife conservation.

Wildlife conservation--Arkansas--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2025]

Summary:

An account of the rise of sportsmen and conservation groups in Arkansas who made common cause to save the state's wildlife resources So Great Was the Slaughter reveals the untold story of Arkansas conservation pioneers who saved the state's game and fish populations.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. "The Woods Furnish All the Meat You Want": Early Arkansas Hunters, 1800-1865

Chapter Two. "Covered with Glory and Blood": Arkansas Sportsmen, New Market Hunters, and Hunting Clubs, 1800-1900

Chapter Three. "There Is No Game Law in Arkansas": Why Hunters Flocked to Arkansas

Chapter Four. "So Great Was the Slaughter": Early Arkansas State Game Laws and the Birth of the Arkansas State Sportsmen's Association

Chapter Five. "Humans Cannot Live without Birds. The World Will Perish": Arkansas State Game Laws, 1900-1909

Chapter Six. Earnest Vivian Visart: Arkansas's First State Game Warden, 1906-1910

Chapter Seven. The Pauper and the Prince of Game Conservation: Earnest Vivian Visart, Edward Avery McIlhenny, and the Political Wrangling of Arkansas Game Law, 1910-1916

Chapter Eight. The Attempted Destruction of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, 1917-1920

Chapter Nine. Battling Back: Arkansas Conservationists and the Game and Fish Commission, 1921-1925

Epilogue

Appendix A: Synopsis of Act 124 Creating the Arkansas State Game Commission

Appendix B: List of Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioners, 1915-1925

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780817395469

0817395466

OCLC:

1503845287