Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History : Volume IV: Domesticated and Companion Animals (Part 2)

The sources collected in this volume are concerned with the roles of wild animals in different contexts of encounter and interaction and against the background of a broader reevaluation of wild(er)ness in American culture, literature, and art.

Sources offer insights into the cultures of hunting in merican society, including American self-conceptions as a "hunting democracy", and the role of representations of wild animality for contemporary ideas about civilization, nationhood, and masculinity, among other aspects.