The Hunter's Game

The Hunter's Game PDF Author: Louis S. Warren
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
The Hunter's Game reveals that early wildlife conservation was driven not by heroic idealism, but by the interests of recreational hunters and the tourist industry. As American wildlife populations declined at the end of the nineteenth century, elite, urban sportsmen began to lobby for game laws that would restrict the customary hunting practices of immigrants, Indians, and other local hunters.