Cattle country : livestock in the cultural imagination /

Cattle country : livestock in the cultural imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dolan, Kathryn Cornell, author.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	At table
Subject:	Cattle in literature. Cattle -- United States -- History. Livestock -- United States -- History. Cattle. Cattle in literature. Livestock. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457440

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ISBN:	9781496227010 1496227018 9781496218643 1496218647
Summary:	Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.
Other form:	Print version: 9781496218643 1496218647

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Washington Irving, Cattle, and Indian Territory
2. Civilizing Cattle in the Writings of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper
3. Henry David Thoreau, Regional Cuisine, and Cattle
4. Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
5. The Cowboys Are Indians in The Squatter and the Don
6. Southern Cuisine without Cattle in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Stories
7. Industrial-Global Cattle in Upton Sinclair and Winnifred Eaton
Conclusion
Notes