Hunting and the American Imagination (Hardcover)

The historic image of the American hunter, clad in buckskins and carrying a rifle, is a cultural icon. However, in this study Daniel Justin Herman finds that America's hunting tradition did not spring solely from the colonial or frontier experience. By tracing American hunters' ideas about who they were and what they represented, Herman shows how Americans claimed a continent and forged enduring ideas about manliness, race and nation.