TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colpitts,George
TI  - Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada To 1940
SN  - 9780774850384
AV  - QL85 -- .C64 2002eb 
U1  - 333.95/4/09712 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Animals and civilization -- Canada, Western
KW  - Animals -- Social aspects -- Canada, Western
KW  - Wildlife utilization -- Canada, Western -- History
KW  - Wildlife conservation -- Canada, Western -- History
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada, Western
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Game in the Garden -- Introduction -- 1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade -- 2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement -- 3 From Meat to Sport Hunting -- 4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance -- 5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people
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ER  -