Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers: American Hilltop Fox Chasing

[...]this process essentially involved the identification of man with animal, "where men took the names of animals, animals took the names of men, and men projected themselves into animals in the chase" (208). The modern chase was subject to government agency ineptitude and shortsightedness in environmental intervention; changing conceptions of property rights and terms of access to private land; the development of fast roads and the proliferation of the car; the eastward spread of coyotes; and the reintroduction, protection and "Disneyfication" of deer. Sitton details the tensions (and violence) caused by the pressures of modernity, ably describing how isolated islands of fox-hunting culture were engulfed by the forces of the American ecosystem, its politics and its prejudices.