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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Main Author Coleman, Jon T
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New Haven Yale University Press 11.08.2004
Edition1
SeriesWestern Americana series
Subjects
HISTORY
HISTORY / General
Human-wolf encounters
United States
Wolves
Wolves > United States > History
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: CHAPTER TWO: Beasts of Lore: CHAPTER THREE: Wolf Bullets with Adders’ Tongues: CHAPTER FOUR: Predator to Prey: CHAPTER FIVE: Surrounded: CHAPTER SIX: Metaphors of Slaughter: CHAPTER SEVEN: A Wealth of Canines: CHAPTER EIGHT: Call It a Coyote: CHAPTER NINE: Annihilation and Enlightenment: Reintroduction NOTES INDEX Back Matter
  • Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Southern New England -- 1 Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying "This Is Mine" in Colonial New England -- 2 Beasts of Lore: How Stories Turned Fearsome Monsters into Skulking Criminals -- 3 Wolf Bullets with Adders' Tongues: How to Kill a Wolf in Colonial New England -- Part Two: The Northeastern Woodlands -- 4 Predator to Prey: Wolves' Journey Through the Northeastern Woodlands -- 5 Surrounded: Fear and Retribution in the Northeastern Forests -- 6 Metaphors of Slaughter: Two Wolf Hunts -- Part Three: The American West -- 7 A Wealth of Canines: Mormon Americans on the Great Plains -- 8 Call It a Coyote: How to Exterminate Wolves in Colonial Utah -- Part Four: The Federal Government -- 9 Annihilation and Enlightenment: The Cultural Extinction of North American Wolves -- Reintroduction -- Notes -- Index
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Contents --
  • Preface --
  • 2. Beasts of Lore --
  • 8. Call It a Coyote --
  • 3. Wolf Bullets with Adders' Tongues --
  • 5. Surrounded --
  • Reintroduction --
  • 9. Annihilation and Enlightenment --
  • 1. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots --
  • 6. Metaphors of Slaughter --
  • 7. A Wealth of Canines --
  • Index.
  • Notes --
  • Front matter --
  • 4. Predator to Prey --
  • Introduction --
  • Part One. Southern New England --
  • Index
  • Part Four. The Federal Government --
  • 3. Wolf Bullets with Adders’ Tongues --
  • Part Three. The American West --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Part Two. The Northeastern Woodlands --