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Wolf Mountains : A History of Wolves along the Great Divide

2002

Information on the essential players and key tenets in the biological field can be found in Mike Link and Kate Crowley, Following the Pack: The World of Wolf Research (1994).10 The Mythological Beast Even a rudimentary survey of lupine natural history intonates key differences between the wolf as a biological animal and the wolf as a mythological beast. [...] Exceptionalist rhetoric lauding the United States as the inventor of the national park concept reflected an exalting tradition in American history from the Pilgrim Fathers to the warriors of the Cold War.46 Meanwhile, Canadian academics distinguished their environmental history from that of the United States by stressing continuing imperial links and the importance of state government in guiding w [...] Wolf Mountains offers a history of Rocky Mountain canines that considers images of wolves in the country of the mind and the treatment of wolves in the material environment. [...] The indefatigable explorers noted that, "whatever [meat] is left out at night falls to the share of the wolves, who are the constant and numerous attendants of the buffaloe."15 One night as the Corps of Discovery camped along the banks of the Yellowstone River, an inquisitive lupine ventured into a tent where Nathaniel Pryor was sleeping and allegedly bit the slumbering sergeant on the hand. [...] While Lewis and Clark described wolves as "shepherds" of the buffalo (after their habit of trailing the herds), the large canines were customarily seen as the enemies rather than the guardians of game species.17 The explorers themselves stressed the 'ravages' of wolves along the Yellowstone River.
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Authors

Karen R. Jones

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references: p. 301-324
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
599.773
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
21
General Note
Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
1552380726 9781552384800
LCCN
QL737.C22
LCCN Item number
J66 2002eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (x, 336 p.)
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Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)gtp00521657 (OCoLC)180704050 (CaOOCEL)402778
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaBNVSL

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