ABSTRACT

Wildlife was once so abundant in North America that immense quantities of hunting trophies were exported to Europe. The game was, however, so ruthlessly exploited by hunters from the Eastern Seaboard and Europe alike that, by the end of the 19th century, the continent had become what Roderick Nash calls a net importer of ‘wild nature’. Hunter sportsmen turned to the African colonies of the various European empires (Beinart and Coates, 1995, pp26–27).