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Author Edmonds, Michael

Title Taking Flight : a History of Birds and People in the Heart of America
Published Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 1 Thinking about Birds; 2 Bones, Stones, Mounds, and Magic; 3 Sun Kings, Shamans, and Thunderbirds; 4 The Great Spirit Had Blessed Them; 5 Missionaries, Monsters, and Miracles; 6 Soldiers, Statesmen, and Science; 7 Fledgling Ornithologists; 8 Ahonques, Timber-Doodles, and Shitquicks; 9 Feathers, Fetishes, and Fables; 10 The Great Extermination; 11 Thinking about People; Sources and Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
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Subject Birds -- Social aspects -- Middle West -- History
Bird watching -- Middle West -- History
Bird watching
Birds -- Social aspects
Middle West
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870208379
0870208373