This is less a comprehensive history of hunting in the US and UK than it is a lively analysis of the ways in which poor people have always hunted to protect their crops and put food on the table, almost always careful to use every last bite and not kill off the game, but while wealthy people have acted in excess (canned hunts, shooting stands, firing randomly at buffalo from a train car) until inconvenienced, shamed and faced with not being able to do it any more, whereupon they adopt positions of conservation, game reserves (as another, very good book point out, usually kicking squatter and poor hunters off of the land to do it) and ethics. Dray finds striking anecdotes and information about the origins of Abercrombie and Fitch, Theodore Roosevelt, Bambi, women's archery, the trajectory of the NRA from education to lobbying, Cold War lionizing of Davy Crockett, Vaudeville and vegans.