["The Star of the World"]

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

Hunting is one of America's deeply held national traditions.

Some of our biggest folk heroes happen to be hunters, men like Daniel Boone, David Crockett,

and Theodore Roosevelt.

But how did Hunting become a tradition in America in the first place?

And how did that tradition influence American culture, including its arts and conservation laws?

My guest day tackled the history of American hunting, especially its sporting form in his latest book.

His name is Philip Dre and his book is The Fair Chase, the epic story of hunting in America.

Today on the show, Philip and I discuss the start of sport hunting in this country during colonial times

and how European hunting norms influence the past time in America.

We then dig into how Americans develop a new and democratic form of hunting.

And then Philip shares how magazine writers and artists in the 19th century help create the archetype

of the noble sportsman that we have today and how hunting changed as Americans move west.

We then dig into how the decimation of the American bison after civil war led to hunters

starting the conservation movement in America and Theodore Roosevelt's role in that movement.

We inter-conversation discussed in the state of hunting in America today.

After the show's over, check out the show notes at a-wim.ias-hunting.

Philip Dre, welcome to the show.

Ah, thanks for having me.

So you wrote a-just come out of the book called The Fair Chase, the epic story of hunting in America.

And I think I told you in the email, this is definitely an epic story because it covers hunting

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