Download or read book The Hunter Elite: Americans, Wilderness, and the Rise of the Big-game Hunt written by Tara Kathleen Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These narratives never stood alone, but were part of a contested set of meanings that interacted with other kinds of hunting, and of writing about hunting---in particular with the work of women big-game hunters, who challenged links between manliness and the hunt, and of British big-game hunters, whose imperial narratives offered an alternate reading of the hunt's meaning. Over time, as American sportsmen-hunters interacted with these other readings of the hunt, the big-game hunting narrative became a site for negotiations over issues ranging from questions of empire and national identity to discussions over gender roles and the meaning of the hunt for both men and women.