The Hunter's Game; Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America

by Louis S. Warren

• ISBN13: 9780300080865
• ISBN10: 0300080867
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This book takes a new look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico to Blackfeet in Montana, local hunters' traditions of using wildlife have clashed with conservationist ideas of "proper" hunting for over a century. Louis Warren contends that these conflicts arose from deep social divisions and that the bitter history of conservation offers a new narrative for the history of the American West. At the heart of western - and American - history, Warren argues, is the transformation of many local resources, like wildlife, into "public goods," or "national commons."

Author Biography

Louis S. Warren is assistant professor and director of the graduate program in the department of history at the University of San Diego.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue: Going West: Wildlife, Frontier, and the Commons	p. 1
The Killing of Seely Houk	p. 21
Boon and Bust: Pennsylvania's Deer Among Sportsmen and Farmers	p. 48
"Raiding Devils" and Democratic Freedoms: Indians, Ranchers, and New Mexico Wildlife	p. 71
Tourism and the Failing Forest	p. 106
Blackfeet and Boundaries at Glacier National Park	p. 126
Erasing Boundaries, Saving the Range	p. 152
Epilogue: Localism, Nationalism, and Nature	p. 172
Notes	p. 183
Index	p. 221
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