The Hunters Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America

by Louis S. Warren

Book Overview

This provocative 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300080867
• ISBN13: 9780300080865
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"