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Life in the Land: The Story of the Kaibab Deer

Prendergast, Neil Douglas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122651902

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2005, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
“Life in the Land” investigates the relationship between North Americans and deer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The interaction between various communities and this ungulate is important because the animal – both its physical body and its cultural image – have been at the center of the American conception of nature. Early activists in the twentieth century environmental movement such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson drew upon the image of deer to convey influential environmental ideas to the national public. This thesis explains the source of that image in the Euro-American quest for a pristine and innocent nature. The work demonstrates the role of Mormons, the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service in the application of the cultural myth of virgin land to the Kaibab Plateau of Arizona and its deer herd. The thesis also discusses the interaction between Southern Paiutes and the Kaibab deer.
Marguerite Shaffer (Advisor)
92 p.
Mule Deer; Aldo Leopold; Rachel Carson; Environmental Movement; Kaibab Plateau; Southern Paiute; Mormon; National Park Service; Forest Service; Tourism; Pastoral; Edge Effect; Bioregion; Environmental History; Utah; Arizona

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  • Prendergast, N. D. (2005). Life in the Land: The Story of the Kaibab Deer [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122651902

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Prendergast, Neil. Life in the Land: The Story of the Kaibab Deer. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122651902.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Prendergast, Neil. "Life in the Land: The Story of the Kaibab Deer." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122651902

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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