Table of Contents

(1) Foreword (2) Acknowledgments (3) Introduction (4) The Object of the Chase: Big-Game Animals of the American West (5) The Subsistence Hunters: Twelve Millennia Surviving with Wildlife (6) The Sport Hunters: Adventurers and Aristocrats, 1800-1865 (7) The Arms of the Chase: An Evolving Array of Weaponry (8) The Market Hunters: Demand, Depletion, Devastation (9) The Sport Hunters: Officers, Blue-Bloods, and Foreign Gentlemen in the Golden Age, 1865-1900 (10) The Image of the Chase: Artists, Illustrators, Photographers, and Engravers (11) The Sport Hunters: American Adventurers in the Golden Age, 1865-1900 (12) The Hunter-Naturalists: Conserving Western Big-Game Animals (13) Bibliography (14) Index

About the Author

Richard C. Rattenbury earned a B.A. degree in history from Texas Christian University and an M.A. in museum studies from Texas Tech University. He has served as curator of history at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum since 1987.

Reviews

A must read for anyone interested in the history of hunting, firearms, and the West. In his well-written, balanced narrative, based on the words of the hunters themselves, Richard Rattenbury transports us back into the nineteenth century, and a vanished American West. John F. Reiger Professor of History, Ohio University, Chillicothe; and author of The Passing of the Great West: Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell and American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation. Winner -- 2009 Western Writers of America SPUR AWARD for Best Non-Fiction Historical Book Winner -- 2009 Independent Book Publishers Association IPPY GOLD AWARD for Best Regional (Western) Non-Fiction Winner -- 2009 ForeWord Magazine SILVER AWARD for History Book of the Year Finalist -- 2009 Oklahoma Book Awards for Non-Fiction Finalist -- 2009 Independent Book Publishers Association BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD for Large Format Cover Design