| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940. By George Colpitts. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. x + 205 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

When the British Columbian government ended its licensed grizzly bear hunt in 2001, many northern British Columbians were dismayed. Many thought the government was cynically working for the votes of southern urban environmentalists. They believed that the move could have nothing to do with conservation. The superabundance of large game is part of local identity and lore. It is to the history and significance of such mythologies that George Colpitts turns his attention in Game in the Garden. His is an ambitious book—Colpitts surveys changing attitudes toward wildlife from the eighteenth-century fur trade to the beginning of World War II. Although, or perhaps because, it engages the British literature more firmly than the American historiography, historians in the Canadian and U. S. Wests should take interest in this book.

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