Vicious : wolves and men in America /

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Author / Creator:Coleman, Jon T., 1970- author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
©2004
Description:1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Western Americana series
Yale Western Americana series.
Subject:Wolves -- United States -- History.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wolves.
HISTORY -- General.
Wolves.
Wolven.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11151708
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ISBN:9780300133370
0300133375
9780300103908
0300103905
9781281731548
1281731544
9780300119725
0300119720
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index.
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Summary: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 wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America - and of the humans who have hated and then loved them - Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.
Other form:Print version: Coleman, Jon T., 1970- Vicious. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004 0300103905 9780300103908