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The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story
Thomas McNamee
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Description for The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story
paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, B&W photos throughout, charts. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf. The greatest event in Yellowstone history. Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth--until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the "evil" wolf was heard no more. The "good" animals--elk, deer, bison--proliferated, until they too had to be "managed." Two decades later, recognizing that ecosystems lacking their keystone predators ... Read more
A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf. The greatest event in Yellowstone history. Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth--until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the "evil" wolf was heard no more. The "good" animals--elk, deer, bison--proliferated, until they too had to be "managed." Two decades later, recognizing that ecosystems lacking their keystone predators ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Prospecta Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781632260000
SKU
V9781632260000
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About Thomas McNamee
Thomas McNamee was born in Memphis and grew up there and in New York City. He studied writing at Yale under the tutelage of Robert Penn Warren. In McNamee's early career he wrote mostly poetry, publishing in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Southern Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry, and a number of other ... Read more
Reviews for The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story
Praise for Thomas McNamee: The Grizzly Bear is lyrical, lucid, evocative, sometimes funny, and always stylishly written... a classic.
New York Times Book Review A Story of Deep Delight brilliantly evokes the human and natural history of the Tennessee
Mississippi border country... A remarkably convincing novel.
Washington Post In his straightforward and often sparely poetic voice, and with his ... Read more
New York Times Book Review A Story of Deep Delight brilliantly evokes the human and natural history of the Tennessee
Mississippi border country... A remarkably convincing novel.
Washington Post In his straightforward and often sparely poetic voice, and with his ... Read more