| Description |
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) |
| Series |
Emil and Kathleen Sick series in western history and biography |
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Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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| Contents |
Headwaters -- Trout empire -- Trout culture -- Trash fish -- Lunkers -- Wild trout -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context. Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding 19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way that the burgeoning fly-fishing tourist industry shaped the environmental, economic, and social development of the Western United States: introducing and stocking favored fish species, eradicating the less favored native "trash fish," changing the courses of waterways, and leading to conflicts with Native Americans' fishing and territorial rights. Through this analysis, Brown demonstrates that the majestic trout streams often considered a timeless feature of the American West are in fact the product of countless human interventions adding up to a profound manipulation of the Rocky Mountain environment --Amazon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Fishing -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Fishing -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.)
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Trout fishing -- West (U.S.)
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Fly fishing -- West (U.S.)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
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Fishing
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Fishing -- Social aspects
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Fly fishing
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Travel
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Trout fishing
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142
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| Subject |
West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
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| LC no. |
2021692844 |
| ISBN |
9780295805818 |
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0295805811 |
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