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Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains

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This unique history chronicles reciprocal relations between settlers and the native fauna of Kansas from the end of the Civil War until 1880. At the same time as including the development of early-day conservation and game laws, zoologist Eugene D. Fleharty tells of wanton wastefulness at the frontier, but also curiosity, concern, and creativity at the a part of individual settlers, who hunted and fished for food and recreation or simply wondered at the animals’ antics.

Using only primary accounts from newspapers and diaries, Fleharty vividly portrays frontier life before such species as the bison, beaver, antelope, bear, mountain lion, gray wolf, rattlesnake, and black-footed ferret were roughly extirpated by steel plows, reapers, barbed wire, and firearms. As the creator shows the affect of civilization at the prairie ecosystem, readers will share in the lives of the early settlers, experiencing their successes and hardships much as their neighbors did.

This historical account of a regular plains state’s ecology throughout the traumatic homesteading era will interest professionals concerned with biodiversity and global warming in addition to frontier-history buffs.

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