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Trout culture : how fly fishing forever changed the Rocky Mountain West /

A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context. Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding 19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Jen Corrinne, 1980-
Autor Corporativo: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : in association with University of Washington Press, [2015]
Colección:Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context. Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding 19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way that the burgeoning fly-fishing tourist industry shaped the environmental, economic, and social development of the Western United States: introducing and stocking favored fish species, eradicating the less favored native "trash fish," changing the courses of waterways, and leading to conflicts with Native Americans' fishing and territorial rights. Through this analysis, Brown demonstrates that the majestic trout streams often considered a timeless feature of the American West are in fact the product of countless human interventions adding up to a profound manipulation of the Rocky Mountain environment --Amazon
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780295805818
0295805811