Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide [Hardcover]

Karen R. Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002

Features: Documents the love/hate relationship between humans and wolves in four national parks in the Rocky Mountains (Banff, Jasper, Glacier, Yellowstone), from the killing of wolves as worthless vermin to their rehabilitation as symbols of romantic wilderness and ecological vibrancy. This controversial study explores the tumultuous relationship and highlights the struggle of wolf packs to retain footholds on ancestral territory in the parks. Compares distinctive lupine histories with anecdotes and narratives of wolves from Aboriginals and early Europeans from the 19th and 20th centuries. Considers changing ideas of nature and wilderness and competing visions of the North American West. Documents the changing tenets of landscape preservation and species protection in preserves in the US and Canada through a capacious study of canine history.

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About the Author

Karen R. Jones is a teaching fellow in the department of history at the University of Essex. She specialises in the history of the US and the Canadian West, as well as North American environmental history.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552380726
• ISBN-13: 978-1552380727
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,777,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Will hold special appeal to those interested in wildlife, March 4, 2003

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This review is from: Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide (Hardcover)

Karen R. Jones' very specific title, Wolf Mountains: A History Of Wolves Along the Great Divide, will hold special appeal to those interested in American and Canadian wildlife conservation in general and wolf conservation efforts throughout Canada and the United States in particular. Karen Jones provides a blended focus on Canadian and American national parks, and the wolf's place in their ecological systems, including examining interactions between wolves and people in four Rocky Mountain regional parks. The different terrains and histories of these Canadian and American parks (including the Yellowstone National Park), makes for a fine foundation for surveying the history of human/wolf encounters from early to modern times.