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""So Great was the Slaughter is the first serious treatment of the fascinating and nuanced history of hunting and fishing in Arkansas and the origins of the state's wildlife conservation efforts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . [Foster delivers] a focused look at the perennial tug of war between rights and responsibilities in American conservation and environmental history."" --J. Blake Perkins, author of Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks ""Buckley T. Foster's ambitious and original book is impressive. It is a tale worth the telling, and Foster tells it exceedingly well."" --MORRIS S. ARNOLD, United States Circuit Judge and historian of colonial Arkansas ""Foster's passion for Arkansas's wildlife and conservation shines through in this book. His research in primary materials is simply outstanding--I doubt anyone has read and assembled more material on Arkansas hunting and fishing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."" --Drew E. Swanson, author of A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction ""So Great Was the Slaughter is a fascinating story of divided interests that reveals how grudgingly attitudes changed regarding the human relationship with the natural world, particularly the customary right to hunt and fish without limits. . . . Foster's work has the capacity to inspire similar studies in other southern states (and beyond)."" --Julia Brock, coeditor of Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900-1940 ""Rare is a book that challenges, if not fundamentally overturns, a scholarly consensus in American History. . . . Foster's So Great Was the Slaughter is a triumphant statement that is radically innovative yet will surely hold a long-enduring and widespread appeal far beyond the narrow confines of just an initiated few. Behold, a true magnum opus."" --John K. Day, author of The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation

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Buckley T. Foster is a Senior Lecturer in nineteenth century southern and Arkansas history at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Sherman's Mississippi Campaign.

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