Author: Louis S. Warren

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780300080865

The Hunter's Game reveals that early wildlife conservation was driven not by heroic idealism, but by the interests of recreational hunters and the tourist industry. As American wildlife populations declined at the end of the nineteenth century, elite, urban sportsmen began to lobby for game laws that would restrict the customary hunting practices of immigrants, Indians, and other local hunters.