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Muskoxen and their hunters : a history

"Muskoxen, shaggy denizens of the Far North, are creatures long enveloped in myth. In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, ©1999
xi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
9780806131702, 0806131705
41173504
Origins and Connections
The Hunters Primeval
Inuit and Indians
Explorers and Hunters
Exploitation and Preservation
Conservation Entering the Modern Era
Current Concepts
Domestication: The Quest for Gentle Agriculture
Ovibos Domesticus? The Biology of Muskoxen in Captivity
The Future for Umingmak