San Antonio College Library

Traces the history of hunting in the United States, discussing how American hunters' ideas about who they were and what they represented has changed throughout the years.

In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful characters such as Ewing Young, Kit Carson, Peg-leg Smith, and the Robidoux brothers pioneered new trails to the Colorado Basin, the Gila River, and the Pacific and contributed to the wealth that flowed...

For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the!Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that the !Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that...