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The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale Historical Publications Series)

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Warren slices deep into the seemingly endless and culturally opaque conflicts of American history when new peoples clash with old communities over use and control of natural resources.
This book is classified as history but the conflict lines and the human cultures described from the past are as contemporary as tomorrow throughout the Rocky Mountain West of today. The story of this book is still unfolding. Local communities with established commons are still being overwhelmed by distant national constituencies for wilderness and endangered species. And those national constituencies are still saving our last wild things and wild places from certain extinction at the hands of an aggrandizing capitalist society.
Warren makes a valuable contribution to understanding an internal frontier that rivals Race, Class and Civil Rights as great American struggles.
Best of all, Warren takes no sides; he maintains academic objectivity in a context where people today still look at other Americans with complete lack of understanding and blind anger.
Aldo Leopold students should read this book for a key insight into Leopold's early career.

A well-written and insightful book by an up-and-coming star in the field of the history of the American West.