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"A compelling, multi-faceted analysis of the importance of the West--and its taming--in our national narrative."
--Jan E. Dizard, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of American Culture, Amherst College
"As a measure of hunting's power, Jones deftly offers a sophisticated account of hunting and its evocation by women and Indigenous peoples to challenge the fraternity of white male hunters and the power they wielded. Her compelling examples and anecdotes artfully illustrate her arguments, and her facilities as an imaginative historian are everywhere evident. . . . Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
"[Epiphany in the Wilderness] makes a compelling case for hunting's significance and thus stands as an original contribution to the cultural and environmental history of the West."
--Montana The Magazine of Western History
"[Epiphany in the Wilderness] provides a rich and detailed narrative that illuminates the significance of the hunt in the nineteenth-century American West and offers a meaningful contribution to western studies."
--Western American Literature
"[A] rich account of the complex ways that hunting constituted a theater where women and men could craft for themselves diverse social identities. . . . we are still living with the legacies of these diverse hunting performances, and Epiphany in the Wilderness offers readers a broad and provocative foundation for historical reflection."
--Western Historical Quarterly
"[A] well-conceived, wide-ranging reexamination of hunting in the American West, executed with wit and lively writing."
―Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"The many-faceted inquiries of Jones' work will provide grist for discussion for many years to come."
―Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"[Karen Jones] calls forth a refreshingly diverse cast of characters, processes, and perspectives in this ambitious book. . . . Jones's characterizations of early western women, both well-known and obscure, are rich in detail and effectively disrupt any visions of a uniformly masculine American frontier."
―Journal of Historical Geography
"[A] valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century western history and literature. . . . This kind of creative thinking should stimulate classroom discussions."
―Journal of American History
Karen R. Jones is a historian of the American West with particular interests in nineteenth-century cultural and environmental history. Her books include Wolf Mountains: The History of Wolves along the Great Divide, The Invention of the Park, and The American West: Competing Visions. She was awarded the James Bradley Fellowship at the Montana Historical Society for her research on hunting and conservation in late nineteenth-century Montana and has earned fellowships at the Autry National Center and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center for projects on horses and war in the nineteenth century and on taxidermy and the "afterlife" of hunted animals.
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