Introduction. Discordant Harmonies: Interspecies Relations in the United States
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging wordAnd the sky is not clouded all day.Brewster Higley, “Home on the Range”The lyrics to the popular folk song “Home on the Range,” first composed in 1873, depict a picturesque “utopia...
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European journal of American studies
2024
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| Sumari: | Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging wordAnd the sky is not clouded all day.Brewster Higley, “Home on the Range”The lyrics to the popular folk song “Home on the Range,” first composed in 1873, depict a picturesque “utopia among pristine nature,” in which the promise of harmony between humans and animals forms the appeal of the American West as a place where one may want to set up house (“Home on the Range” 160). In... |
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