Vicious : wolves and men in America /
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves' misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2004
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| Series: | Yale Western Americana series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England
- Beasts of lore : how stories turned fearsome monsters into skulking criminals
- Wolf bullets with adders' tongues : how to kill a wolf in colonial New England
- Predator to prey : wolves' journey through the northeastern woodlands
- Surrounded : fear and retribution in the northeastern forests
- Metaphors of slaughter : two wolf hunts
- A wealth of canines : Mormon Americans on the Great Plains
- Call it a coyote : how to exterminate wolves in colonial Utah
- Annihilation and enlightenment : the cultural extinction of North American wolves
- Reintroduction.
