Zoo Nebraska - The Dismantling of an American Dream (Paperback)

A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one-where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man's outsize vision. When Dick Haskin's plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick's devotion to primates didn't die with her. He returned to his hometown with Reuben, an adolescent chimp, in the bed of a pickup truck and transformed a trailer home into the Midwest Primate Center. As the tourist trade multiplied, so did the inhabitants of what would become Zoo Nebraska, the unlikeliest boon to Royal's economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskin's dream.

General

Imprint:	Little a
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Carson Vaughan
Dimensions:	139 x 208 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-1-5039-0149-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-5039-0149-1
Barcode:	9781503901490

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