Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Act 1 Actors and Agents
7. Chapter 1 Masculinity, the “Strenuous Life,” and the Genealogy of the Hunter Hero 33
8. Chapter 2 The Voice of the Winchester and the Martial Culture of the Hunt 77
9. Chapter 3 Lady Adventurers and Crack Shots 109
10. Act 2 The “Afterlife” of the Hunt
11. Chapter 4 Landscapes of Testimony 137
12. Chapter 5 Staging the Game Trail 181
13. chapter 6 The Soul in the Skin 227
14. Act 3 Saving the Hunting Frontier
15. Chapter 7 Conservation, Wild Things, and the End of the Hunting Trail 273
16. Chapter 8 Heretical Visions and Hunter’s Paradise Redux 305
17. Preservation and Performance 333
18. Selected Bibliography 339
19. Index 357