Trout Culture

How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Fish & Ocean Life, Fish, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Trout Culture by Jen Corrinne Brown, University of Washington Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jen Corrinne Brown ISBN: 9780295805818
Publisher: University of Washington Press Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press Language: English
Author: Jen Corrinne Brown
ISBN: 9780295805818
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Language: English

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential experience of communion with nature belies the sport’s long history of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately, transformation.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMwEkKj9jg

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential experience of communion with nature belies the sport’s long history of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately, transformation.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMwEkKj9jg

More books from University of Washington Press

Cover of the book The Lost Wolves of Japan by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Shiraz in the Age of Hafez by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Walking Washington's History by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Life as Surplus by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book The Bible in Middle English Literature by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Unpleasantries by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Warnings against Myself by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book City of Virtues by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Mapping Chinese Rangoon by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Early Rock Art of the American West by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Imperial Illusions by Jen Corrinne Brown
Cover of the book Bits of Life by Jen Corrinne Brown
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy