Epiphany in the Wilderness : Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The West, Storytelling Animals, and the Hunt as Performance -- ACT 1: Actors and Agents: The Cultural Ecology of Hunter's Paradise -- 1. Masculinity, the "Strenuous Life," and the Genealogy of the Hunter Hero -- 2. The Voice of the Winchester and the Martial Culture of the Hunt -- 3. Lady Adventurers and Crack Shots: Hunter Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century American West -- ACT 2: The "Afterlife" of the Hunt: Story, Image, and Trophy -- 4. Landscapes of Testimony: Performing the Game Trail in Literature, Art, and Photography -- 5. Staging the Game Trail: The Theatrical Wild -- 6. The Soul in the Skin: Taxidermy and the Reanimated Animal -- ACT 3: Saving the Hunting Frontier -- 7. Conservation, Wild Things, and the End of the Hunting Trail -- 8. Heretical Visions and Hunter's Paradise Redux -- Preservation and Performance: An Afterword to the Afterlife -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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