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The Most Defiant Devil - William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife (Paperback)
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The Most Defiant Devil - William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife (Paperback)
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time
for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of
extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these
decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into
this contradictory era came William Temple Hornaday, a
larger-than-life dynamo who almost uncannily embodies these
conflicting threads in our history. In The Most Defiant Devil, a
compelling new biography of this complex figure, Gregory Dehler
explores the life of Hornaday the hunter, museum builder,
zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A
deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and
was racist even by his era's standards, going so far as to display
an Mbuti pygmy as a ""living specimen"" in a zoo. A passionate
hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the
last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in
his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday
designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the
Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become
the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.In this single,
fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive
Era's most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened
visions.
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