Cover image for Vicious : wolves and men in America
Title:
Vicious : wolves and men in America
Author:
Coleman, Jon T., 1970-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England -- Beasts of lore : how stories turned fearsome monsters into skulking criminals -- Wolf bullets with adders' tongues : how to kill a wolf in colonial New England -- Predator to prey : wolves' journey through the northeastern woodlands -- Surrounded : fear and retribution in the northeastern forests -- Metaphors of slaughter : two wolf hunts -- A wealth of canines : Mormon Americans on the Great Plains -- Call it a coyote : how to exterminate wolves in colonial Utah -- Annihilation and enlightenment : the cultural extinction of North American wolves -- Reintroduction.
ISBN:
9780300103908
Format :
Book