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

by Karen R. Jones

Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three "acts," using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a "cultural ecology of the chase" in literature, art, photography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607323974
• ISBN13: 9781607323976
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"