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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Jacket condition: Very Good
ISBN: 0300103905 / 9780300103908
Seller: Fireside Bookshop

United Kingdom
About Item: New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Type: Book 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 the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans' thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate… Read More
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