Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925
by
Tara Kathleen Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press...