Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by George Archibald
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Prologue
  • 2 The Complexities of Childhood
  • 3 Self-Discovery and Love
  • 4 Students, Teachers, and New Horizons
  • 5 Conservation Beginnings in a Midwestern Appalachia
  • 6 Enter Leopold and the Chickens
  • 7 An Interruption: World War II
  • 8 The Action: Postwar Scientific Solidarity
  • 9 The Return: Deer and a Decision
  • 10 The Setting, the Task
  • 11 Booming Chickens and a Land Boom
  • 12 The Prairie Chicken War
  • 13 Hamerstroms' Kingdom: The Complexities of Success
  • 14 A Naturalist Family.
  • 15 Of Hawks, Humans, and Freedom
  • 16 Free at Last
  • 17 The Making of a Legend
  • 18 Death of a Biologist
  • 19 Fran
  • 20 A Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index.