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Mr Hornaday S War
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Author : Stefan Bechtel
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Mr Hornaday S War written by Stefan Bechtel and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Nature categories.
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who tracked tigers in Borneo with friendly headhunters, lead crocodile-hunting expeditions in the Orinoco, and scouted the last remaining bison in the Montana territories. William Temple Hornaday (1854–1937) was also a man ahead of his time. He was the most influential conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. When this one-time big-game collector witnessed the wanton destruction of wildlife prevalent in the Victorian era, he experienced an awakening and devoted the rest of his life to protecting our planet’s endangered species. Hornaday founded the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., served for thirty years as director of the renowned Bronx Zoo, and became a fierce defender of wild animals and wild places. He devoted fifty years to fighting gun manufacturers, poachers, scandalously lax game-protection laws, and the vast apathy of the American public. He waged the “Plume Wars” against the feathered-hat industry and is credited with having saved both the Alaskan fur seal and the American bison from outright extinction. Mr. Hornaday’s War restores this major figure to his rightful place as one of the giants of the modern conservation movement. But Stefan Bechtel also explores the grinding contradictions of Hornaday’s life. Though he crusaded against the wholesale slaughter of wildlife, he was at one time a trophy hunter, and what happened in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo, when Hornaday displayed an African man in an “ethnographic exhibit,” shows a side of him that is as baffling as it is repellant. This gripping book takes an honest look at a fascinating, enigmatic man who both represented and transcended his era’s paradoxical approach to wildlife, and who profoundly changed the course of the conservation movement for generations to come.
Mr Hornaday S War
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Author : Stefan Bechtel
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Mr Hornaday S War written by Stefan Bechtel and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Nature categories.
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was probably the most famous conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. Hornaday's great passion was protecting wild things and wild places, and he spent most of his adult life in a state of war on their behalf, as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC; as director of the Bronx Zoo for thirty years; and as the author of nearly two dozen books on conservation and wildlife. But in Mr. Hornaday's War, the long-overdue biography of Hornaday by journalist Stefan Bechtel, the grinding contradictions of Hornaday's life also become clear. Though he is credited with saving the American bison from extinction, he began his career as a rifleman and trophy hunter who led "the last buffalo hunt" into the Montana Territory. And what happened in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo, when Hornaday displayed an African man in a cage, shows a side of him that is as baffling as it is repellent. This gripping new book takes an honest look at a fascinating and enigmatic man.
Theodore Roosevelt Naturalist In The Arena
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Author : Char Miller
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-03
Theodore Roosevelt Naturalist In The Arena written by Char Miller and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03 with History categories.
Theodore Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of a whole for this driven, charismatic public servant, and Roosevelt approached the natural world with joy and a passionate engagement. Drawing on an array of approaches—biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political, Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes this energetic man’s manifold encounters with the great outdoors. George Bird Grinnell, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and William Hornaday were among the many conservationists with whom Roosevelt corresponded, collaborated, hiked, and governed—and in turn, inspired. Together, Roosevelt and his contemporaries developed a progressive argument for the conservation of natural resources as a way to construct a more democratic nation-state. This legacy also comes with some troubling domestic and global implications, as Roosevelt fused his call for the conservation of resources—natural and human, domestically and internationally—with a deep-seated conviction that some were more fit than others to control the world and define its future.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Law categories.
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The United States
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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The United States written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Legislation categories.
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
The American Naturalist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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The Alcalde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977-07
The Alcalde written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-07 with categories.
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Congressional Record Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Congressional Record Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Law categories.
Includes history of bills and resolutions.
The Nation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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The Critic
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Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Critic written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.