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  1. Half Title Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I: Embodied Histories
    1. 1 Kicking over the Traces? Freeing the Animal from the Archive
    2. 2 Occupational Hazards: Honeybee Labour as an Interpretive Device in Animal History
    3. 3 Hearing History through Hoofbeats: Exploring Equine Volition and Voice in the Archive
  8. Part II: Traces
    1. 4 Who is a Greyhound? Reflections on the Non-Human Digital Archive
    2. 5 Accessing Animal Health Knowledge: Popular Educators and Veterinary Science in Rural Ontario
    3. 6 Animal Cruelty, Metaphoric Narrative, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1919–1939
  9. Part III: The Unknowable Animal
    1. 7 Vanishing Flies and the Lady Entomologist
    2. 8 Guinea Pig Agnotology
    3. 9 Tuffy’s Cold War: Science, Memory, and the US Navy’s Dolphin
    4. 10 The Elephant in the Archive
  10. Part IV: Spatial Sources and Animal Movement
    1. 11 Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History
    2. 12 Spatial Analysis and Digital Urban Animal History
    3. 13 Visualizing the Animal City: Digital Experiments in Animal History
    4. 14 What’s a Guanaco? Tracing the Llama Diaspora through and beyond South America
  11. Part V: Looking at Animals
    1. 15 Hidden in Plain Sight: How Art and Visual Culture Can Help Us Think about Animal Histories
    2. 16 Creatures on Display: Making an Animal Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario
    3. 17 Portraits of Extinction: Encountering Bluebuck Narratives in the Natural History Museum
  12. Epilogue: Combinations and Conjunction
  13. Contributors
  14. Index

Index

A

Ahmed, Sara, 317

Alberti, Samuel, 373–74

Allison, Leanne, 245

alpacas, 14, 318; as camelid species, 317, 323; colours and patterns of, 324; as domesticated, 323–24; throughout South America, 320; in the US, 330–31; as water dependent, 324; wool of, 324; in zoos, 324. See also camelids

American Bee Journal, 52, 62, 65

American Blue Cross Society, 142

American foulbrood (AFB): caused by, 59; control efforts, 63; destructive potential of, 59; hardiness of spores of, 61–62; impact on bee colonies, 59, 61; infections in 1880s and 1890s, 62; outbreak in 1870s of, 59; response to, 62; spread of, 53; virulence of, 63

American Journal of Agriculture and Science, 166–67

American Philosophical Society (APS), 161–64; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 163

Anders, Frank L., 82

Andrews, Thomas G., 51; Killing for Coal, 51

animal advocacy movements, 91, 94

animal agency, 7–8, 25–26, 351; evidence of, 186, 316, 351–52; methodological challenges of, 15, 26; limited usefulness of questions of, 26, 49

animal bodies: in art production, 341; of bees, 53–54, 58, 67; of dolphins, 201; and embodied methodology, 23–24, 28–29, 41; exhibiting, 375; of greyhounds, 93, 108; as historical artifacts, 374; of horses, 34, 38, 41; and labour, 51, 348–49; of llamas, 317, 329; materiality of, 11, 14; and pigments, 340; reading of as sources, 8–9, 27, 67; and visual imagery, 340, 350

“Animal City” Spatial History Lab project, 293, 295, 309, 311

animal cruelty: and anti–animal cruelty, 137, 141, 146–48; and anti-cruelty advocates, 138; and anti–cruelty laws, 100, 305; and anti-steel trap leagues, 137, 142; in antivisection literature, 190; in the fur trade, 137–38, 144, 146; and horses, 81. See also animal rights; antivivisection movement; Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCAs)

animal health care, 117–19, 127–28, 131–32. See also animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinarians; veterinary medicine

animal health knowledge, 117–19, 121, 127, 131. See also animal health care; animal health manuals; veterinarians; veterinary medicine

animal health manuals, 12, 117–20, 122, 126–27, 131–32. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; veterinarians; veterinary medicine

animal historians: methods and challenges of, 5, 8–11, 13–15, 37, 305, 397; and other subfields of history, 22, 292, 373, 390; questions faced by, 3, 75–76; studying the recent past, 91, 112; as similar to other historians, 227–28. See also animal history

animal history: and anthropocentric sources, 120, 269, 284–85; and applying an “animal lens,” 269–70, 283; and art history, 14, 340, 352–53; as emotionally exhausting, 310–11; field of, 3–4, 11, 15, 292, 361, 390, 399; locational data as a source for, 239, 263; methodological challenges of, 3–5, 9–10, 15, 200, 214, 269; methods of, 8-9, 13, 85, 239, 269; and oral history, 27, 29, 41, 97, 214; risks of, 8, 15, 73–74; scholarship, 293, 340;

animal history (continued) shortcomings of, 73–75, 284; so-called impossibility of, 4, 235; sources on, 236, 293–95, 305–6; urban, 269–70, 279, 283; and visual culture, 339–40, 342, 350, 353; writing of, 8, 341. See also animal historians

animal labour: and ANIMALIA exhibit, 364; and animal workers, 347–50; history of, 50–51; and honeybees, 12, 49–52, 66, 69; and horses, 279, 283, 341; and llamas, 329, 331; and oxen, 350–51; and Welland Canals, 347, 350–51; and working conditions, 50–51

animal protectors, 139–40, 142, 145, 147

animal rights: advocacy, 91; as a philosophy, 148; activists and groups, 148, 213

animal tracking, 237, 262

animal traps: and trappers, 138, 140, 143–44, 146–47; anti-trapping campaigns, 148; anti-trapping literature, 146–47; leghold traps, 137, 140–43, 145, 147–48. See also animal cruelty

ANIMALIA exhibit, 3, 5, 357–60, 367, 369–70; collections of, 14, 365–66; animals featured in, 363–64; development of, 359, 362–63 themes of, 364, 369. See also Archives of Ontario

Annales School, 35–37

Annesley, Lady Clare, 141

antelopes. See bluebucks

Anthropocene, 149, 262, 329

anthropomorphism, 74, 148, 398–99; pitfalls of 10, 15; and animal stories, 142, 148–50; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 213

antivivisection movement, 13, 176, 186, 188, 190–91; Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society, 188, 190; Ottawa Anti-Vivisection Society, 190. See also vivisection

apex predators, 237, 252

apiaries, 58–61; and apiarists, 57, 66

archives: as repositories of evidence, 3, 361; animal bodies as archives, 23–24, 28, 36–38, 41, 93

— animals in: absence of, 138, 161; hidden nature of, 14, 138, 160, 175, 293; marginal nature of, 5, 316, 389; looking for, 7, 9, 176, 227, 345–47

creating one’s own archives, 13, 95, 112; digital archives, 7, 12, 280; as human constructs 5, 10, 74, 76, 227; as privileging humans and the powerful, 75–76, 235, 346; as records of human agency, 92, 112; rural public archives, 120–21, 123, 126, 129; traditional archives, 12, 389, 218; voices not readily apparent in, 9, 92. See also Archives of Ontario

Archives of Ontario: ANIMALIA exhibit, 3, 5, 358; collections of, 14, 359, 361–63; and educational programming, 359–61; exhibit team, 360, 362, 364, 367, 370; as government institution, 359, 363, 370; Helen McClung Exhibit Area, 360; and interactive activities, 367, 369; as memory institution, 359, 363; outreach program at, 359; past exhibits at, 357, 360; and York University, 360–61. See also archives

Argent, Gala, 29

art history, 339–40; methodologies, 340; and portraiture, 371–73, 383–84

Audubon Society, 140

B

Banting, Frederick, 190–91

Barker, C. A. V., 126, 128

Barnes, Al G., 224, 226

Barnes, H. F., 168–69

Barnum, P. T., 328

Battle of the Greasy Grass, 75, 82–83, 85

Bear 71 [film], 245

bears, 13, 15, 21, 52; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 357, 363; and bear trackers, 239, 246; danger of roads to, 242–43; of the eastern slopes [Rocky Mountains], 241–42, 244, 255, 261–63; food sources of 241–43, 249; foraging of, 241–42, 254;

— grizzly bears: classified as endangered, 236–37; of the eastern slopes, 237, 241–42; female, 239, 242, 244, 248–49; F30, 246–49, 252–53, 258, 260–61; F46, 246, 248–49; as individuals, 249, 255; locational data on, 237–38, 249, 252; movements of, 14, 253; survival rates of, 244

and grizzly country, 240–41, 258, 261; habitats of, 238, 241–42; movements of, 239,
242–44, 249, 252; near golf courses, 241–42, 244; near railways, 241, 243–44; near ski runs, 241–42, 244; relationships among, 48–49; tracking of, 237, 253, 255. See also Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project

beekeepers, 50, 66–67; and “reading” the bodies of bees, 53, 69; and bee forage, 52, 54, 68; and working environments for bees, 51–53; challenges of, 52–53; impact of American foulbrood on, 53, 65; livelihood of, 50, 54; and bee hives, 52, 55; records of, 52, 54, 68; responses to bee diseases by, 53, 61–63. See also honeybees

bees. See honeybees

Bekoff, Marc, 245

Bell, Dr. George, 120, 129–32; Veterinary Medical Wonder, 120, 129, 131

belt tackling, 127–28. See also horses

Benson, Etienne, 4, 121, 238

Benteen, Frederick, 83

Berger, John, 138, 287; “Why Look at Animals?,” 287

Bergh, Henry, 305

Bert, Dr. F. A., 189

birds, 15, 376–78, 391; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 357, 363

Birke, Lynda, 93–94, 101, 106

Blackfish [film], 212

bluebucks: earliest known full-body image of, 380; extinction history of, 378, 384; as extinct species, 378–79, 383; metadata on, 380; at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 371, 375, 377, 382–83; at Naturalis, 381–82; at Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, 376; portraits of, 375–76, 379, 381, 383; specimens of, 371, 380–81, 383; as victim of colonization, 376

Boisseron, Bénédicte, 323

Bökönyi, Sándor, 40

Bonnell, Jennifer: and Roger Simon, 384

book farming, 119, 162

Borst, Charlotte, 118

Botai culture, 38–39

Boulton, Henry Carew, 273

Boulton, William Somerville, 272–73; Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity, 272

Brannaman, Buck, 77

Breck, Major Edward, 142

Brooks, J. Chadwick, 146

Brownell, Franklin, 343–46, 350, 352; Frozen Meat, Byward Market, 343

Bryan, William Jennings, 329

Bucephalus (horse), 23

Bucklin Banner, 223

buffaloberries (Shepherdia canadensis): as food source for bears, 241–42, 260. See also bears

bulls, 222–23, 229

Burghardt, Gordon, 245

Burroughs, John, 143, 245

butchering, 270–71; and butcher shops, 275–78, 282, 285–86; and butchered meats, 270–71, 275, 277, 285; and butchers, 271, 277, 295–96; and slaughterhouses, 292–93, 296, 299, 302–6, 309, 370

C

camelids, 317, 323; and animal labour, 331; as social animals, 324; domestication of, 325; features of, 323; histories of, 317; interbreeding of, 324; products of, 327–28; taxonomic order of, 323; wild, 328. See also alpacas; camels; guanacos; llamas; vicuñas

camels, 218, 220–21, 324, 329. See also camelids

Campbell, Colleen: “Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bears: Each One is Sacred” [exhibit], 257, 259, 262

Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society, 188, 190. See also antivivisection movement

Cartwright, R. G., 82

Castle, William E., 395; The Genetics of Domestic Rabbits: A Manual for Students of Mammalian Genetics, 395

Catlin, George, 79–81

cats, 107, 110, 178, 363, 370; domestic, 1–2

cetaceans, 15, 199–200, 202, 209, 213

Cheyenne (Nation), 82

circuses, 218–20; Al G. Barnes Circus, 223–24; historians of, 221–22; Howe’s Great London Circus, 218, 222; M. L. Clark and Son’s Circus, 218–19, 222–23, 228; Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center, 225; Sells Floto Circus, 217

Civil War, 82–84

Clark, Lee, 222–23

Clark, Mack Loren, 218–19, 221, 223

Cleator, Alice Jean, 139–40

Coates, Benjamin, 162

Coffey, Wallace, 80

Cold War, 199–202, 214, 238

colts. see horses

Comanche: horsemanship, 78–81; Nation, 75, 81; people, 79–80; teachings, 76, 79; wild horse capture, 75, 79–81

Conibear, Frank, 147

Connaught Laboratories, 7, 13, 176–78; Barton Avenue stable of, 176–77; guinea pigs at, 180–82; history of, 176; mice at, 182; public relations campaigns of, 182–83, 190;

Connaught Laboratories (continued) publications of, 176, 180, 182, 186, 192; scientists at, 181, 189–90

contextual analysis, 345–46; relationship to visual analysis, 345

Cook, A. J., 63

Corbain, Alain, 29

Cottingham, Ian, 282

Cowie, Helen, 328

cows, 291–94, 297, 299–300, 306, 311; Two-Cow limit, 299–300

Cox, Lisa, 119

coyotes, 148, 253, 255

Craighead, Frank and John, 238, 245

Creighton, Emma, 101, 106

critical empathy, 245, 263. See also historical empathy

Crook, George, 83

Csordas, Thomas, 30

Custer, George Armstrong, 82–84

D

Daily Telegram, 137, 146

dairy industry, 299, 302; and milk dealers, 294, 297–98; farms and farmers, 297, 299; production, 299

Dakota (Nation), 77, 107

Darwin, Charles, 20, 327, 393–94; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 393

Davis, B. J., 137, 146–47

de Bry, Theodor, 330–31

de Kruif, Paul, 189; Microbe Hunters, 189

deer, 244, 252, 392

Denison, Flora Macdonald, 188

Deyohahá:ge, 357, 366. See also The Indigenous Knowledge Centre

Dickens, Charles, 292–93

digital archives, 280

digital history scholarship, 286, 292, 309–11; digital skills and tools for, 270, 285–87

digital mapping and visualization, 291, 295–96, 302, 306, 309–11

digital sources, 10, 94, 96, 273, 285–86; and dogs, 95, 97, 101–2, 106, 111; and ethical considerations, 95, 97; as ephemeral sources, 94, 96; born-digital sources, 94, 97

digitization projects, 270, 273, 279–80, 284

digitized sources, 270, 277, 279–80, 284–86, 341

diphtheria, 13

dogs: adopters of, 99, 101–2, 104–5, 108–11; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 363, 367–69; behaviour of, 109, 111; bodies of as archives, 93; difficulty finding sources documenting the lives of, 92; dog tracks, 96–103, 111;

— dog-racing industry, 96–100, 102, 104–5; and anti-racing groups, 94, 100, 105; decline of, 98, 101; ties to organized crime, 98

— greyhounds, 12, 91–92; and digital sources, 95, 97; behaviour of, 105, 107–8, 110; betting on, 97–98; breeding, 92–94, 97–102, 104, 111; destruction of, 99–100, 102; history of, 97–98; and crates, 103–4, 108–10; lineages, 92, 101; needs of, 94, 106; racing, 92, 94, 98, 111; transition to family life, 94, 97, 101–2, 105–11

and kennel operators, 100, 102–3, 105; as laboratory animals, 190–91; needs of, 92; pit bulls, 91; puppies, 102; sighthounds, 97; trainers of, 91, 93–94

dolphins, 15; bottlenose dolphins, 13; and development of sonar, 201–2; and humans, 200–1; and US Navy research, 201; as pests, 201; scientific observation of, 201, 209, 212; military applications of, 202. See also Tuffy (dolphin)

The Dolphins That Joined the Navy [film], 204

domestication: and acclimatization, 329; as process and idea, 325, 329

Donovan, H. B., 180

Dorrance, Bill, 77–78

Dorrance, Tom, 77

Duffield, Deborah: and Sam Ridgway, 204; and Tuffy (dolphin), 204–6, 214; as distinguished marine mammalogist, 205

E

Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project (ESGBP), 13–14, 237–39, 243–46, 248, 254, 263; beginning of, 253; conclusions of, 241; locational data generated by, 238, 241, 244, 261–62; observations of, 243–44. See also bears

elephants, 13, 15; from Assam, 228; circus elephants, 13; in classical times, 218; Diamond, 224; and elephant keepers, 218; Mena, 218–22, 228; Princess Alice, 217–18, 227; records of, 217; sold by Carl Hagenbeck, 228. See also Ned (elephant); Tusko (elephant)

elk, 244, 252

Ellard, Roland, 178

Elliot, Devon, 286

Elliott, Henry Wood, 145

embedded history, 28, 38, 41

embodied methodology, 23–24, 28. See also animal bodies,

Emmons, Ebeneezer, 168; Agriculture of New-York, 168

entanglement: as concept in animal studies, 237, 263; between human and other species, 256, 258

entomologists, 53, 65–66, 157–58, 168–69; advocacy for insecticides by, 64; records of, 67; responses to diseases by, 53, 61; and Cecidomyia culmicola, 169; and Margaretta Hare Morris, 161, 163, 166–69; and the Hessian fly, 158, 169

environmental history, 9, 51, 75; and environmental historians, 38, 373, 382

Evans, Bill, 202

Evans, Bryant, 207

Evans, Margaret, 126, 128

extinction, 41, 396; representations of, 371, 374, 383-84

F

farmers, 121–22, 124; and animal health care, 124–28, 130–32; and animal health manuals, 118; limited access to veterinary medicine, 122; understanding of animal anatomy, 124

Felt, Ephraim Porter, 168

Fenje, Liz, 298, 300, 303

Ferguson, Lynne, 77

Fijn, Natasha, 29, 39

fish, 363–65

Fisher, James, 119

Fiske, Minnie, 142

Fitch, Asa, 166–68

Fitzgerald, John G., 176, 180, 183, 186, 189–90

flies: Cecidomyia culmicola, 166, 168–69; Cecidomyia culmicola as misidentified Hessian fly, 159–60, 168; Hessian flies, 157–59, 161–64; larvae of, 158, 167; laying eggs, 157, 160, 163–65, 167; pupa of, 157, 166–67; wheat flies, 161, 166

Flores, Dan, 75

Florida Historical Society, 92

Flury, Henry, 142; “Lady in Furs,” 142

Ford, Glenn, 204; in The Dolphins That Joined the Navy, 204

foxes, 148, 391

Franits, Wayne, 375

Fudge, Erica, 9, 235–36

fur industry, 138; critics, 138–39, 148; and anti-fur movement, 137–38, 148; fashion, 139–40, 143, 150; and fur boycotts, 137, 142; and fur-bearing animals, 139; furriers, 139, 145; growth of, 148; promoters, 138–39, 143, 148

G

Gade, Daniel, 327

Gagne, Raymond J., 169; The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, 169

game, 391–92

Gardenier, Andrew A., 124–25

Gaynor, Andrea, 9

gender: gender-based discrimination, 161–62, 168–69, 323; history of, 13, 26, 390. See also women

Gentile, John, 148

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 7, 9, 14, 236; tracking bears with, 262; visualizing locational data with, 241, 262; and ArcGIS Online, 273, 275, 279, 282–84, 286, 294, 296; and digitized sources, 270, 286; and georeferencing, 273, 284; for animal history, 269, 286–87; potential for the use of, 269–71, 275, 279, 283–84, 287; spatial analysis using, 269–70, 275, 277, 283; limits of, 283, 287; visualizations, 270, 273, 277, 282–84, 286–87; Web-based, 270, 273

germ theory, 118, 127

Gibeau, Mike, 254

Gide, Andre, 23

The Globe [Toronto], 178, 181–82

Godoy, Juan, 327

Goodnight, Thomas, 138

Gray, John S., 83

The Great Epizootic (of 1872–73), 270, 279–83, 286

Greene, Ann Norton, 341, 352

Grewcock, Duncan, 375

Greyhound Racing Record, 93

greyhounds. See dogs

grizzly bears. See bears

Grumm-Grzhimaylo brothers, 37

guanacos, 14, 318, 325–26; as arid adapted, 324; as camelid species, 317, 323;

guanacos (continued) throughout South America, 321, 332. See also camelids

guinea pigs, 7, 13; breeders of, 179–80, 182; and cavies, 179–80; at Connaught Laboratories, 176, 178–82, 186; descriptions of, 183, 186; and diphtheria, 176, 183, 189; and their disappearance from records, 175, 183, 186–87, 191–92; as docile, 178–79, 190; as an expendable species, 189–91; as laboratory animals, 175–78, 180–83, 186, 191–92; as pets, 176, 178–79; prices of, 180–81; reproduction of, 180, 182; and vivisection, 187–88; and Voges holder, 186–87

H

Hagenbeck, Carl, 218, 221, 228

Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 166

Hämäläinen, Pekka, 75

Haraway, Donna, 50, 52

Hare, Robert, 161–62

hares, 391, 393, 395

Harris, Thaddeus William, 163–64, 166–68; A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, 168; Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, 164

Haskett, T. H., 126–29

Healy, Richard, 282

Hein, Hilde, 374

Herman, David, 239, 245

Herrick, Edward Claudius, 163–64, 167

Hessian fly. See flies

historical empathy, 8–10. See also critical empathy

Hoare, Philip, 212

Hockenhull, Joanna, 101, 106

Hodgins, J. E., 126–29

Homquist, Captain Carl O., 207

honeybees, 12, 15; as agricultural producers, 54, 67; behaviour of, 53–54, 67, 69; declining forage sources of, 56–57, 68–69; and exposure to disease, 59, 67; foraging of, 52, 54; health, 12, 50, 54, 67; and insecticide poisoning, 63, 65, 67–68; keepers of, 50; labour of, 12, 49–50, 52, 66, 69; and risks of foraging, 53, 63–64, 67–68; robbing other colonies, 59, 62–63; as workers, 49–50, 67; working environments of, 52–53, 59, 65–66, 68

Hornaday, William T., 145

horses: agency of, 25–26, 30; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 363; Arab, 34; in art history, 339, 343–44; belt tackling of, 127–28;

— bodies of, 23–24, 34, 41; as archives, 27–29, 32–33, 36–38

body language of, 29–32; branding of, 33–34; centring in history of, 12, 79, 84–85; colts, 33, 77; at Connaught Laboratories, 176–77, 182–83; dung of, 35–36; and domestication, 39, 80; domestic horses, 20–21, 37, 39; as expert communicators, 76, 78, 85; as fundamentally relational, 76–77, 85; gelding (castrating) of, 25, 33–34, 41, 127; and the Great Epizootic, 279–80, 282–83; hair of, 36, 41; and horse-centred analysis, 75–76, 82, 85; and horse-human interactions, 12, 76–77, 79–80, 82–85; mares, 32, 35; Mongolian horses, 30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 42; Przewalski’s horse, 19, 20–21, 40–41; riding of, 26, 28–31, 40–41; stallions, 32, 35, 40–41; Thoroughbreds, 34; trainers of, 77, 80; volition of, 73, 75–76, 78–79, 82, 85; wild horses, 21, 40–41; wild vs domesticated, 41–42; and urban transportation, 270, 280, 283; labour of, 341, 347. See also takhis

Howell, Philip, 279

Hribal, Jason, 49–50

Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), 137–38, 140, 145–47, 149

humane societies, 99, 105; Ottawa Humane Society, 345; Toronto Humane Society, 147

Humphrey, Caroline, 33

Hunt, Ray, 77

hybridization, 395–97; and beefalo, 396; and rabbit-hare hybrids, 394–95

I

Indigenous histories, 75, 85

Indigenous knowledge, 12, 22, 41, 85; horsemanship, 75; dismissed, 74–75; failure to account for, 85; in a horse-centred analysis, 76; preservation of, 366

The Indigenous Knowledge Centre, 357, 366

Ingram, Darcy, 187

Internet Archive, 112

Isenberg, Andrew, 75

J

James, Chris, 80

John Lilly, 202; Man and Dolphin, 202

Johnston, Patricia, 345

Jones, Ryan Tucker, 262

Jones, Susan, 119

Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 382

K

Kansas State Archives, 92. See also archives

Kay, Sarah, 341

Kearny, Steven, 83; The Cavalry Manual, 83

Kenny, Keith, 318

Kheraj, Sean: animal history seminar at York, 361

khulans, 36–37

Khustain Nuruu National Park, 20–21

Kiefer, J. J., 168

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 74

Kingston College of Veterinarians, 129

Kirk, Robert G. W., 181, 190

Klingle, Matthew, 191

Knight, Dr. A. P., 130

Knudson, Gus, 221–22, 225–26

Koblin, Aaron, 239; “Flight Patterns,” 239, 241

Kramer, Max, 201

kulans. See khulans,

Kuzmaski, Emma, 361–62

L

Lakota: language, 73; Nation, 73, 82; people, 73; teachings, 73–74

Laut, Agnes C., 144–45, 147; The Fur Trade of America, 144

Lederer, Susan, 191

Lengkeek, Peter, 77

Leopold, Aldo, 238

LeSueur, Charles Alexandre, 159, 165, 167

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 24

Lilly, John, 201–2

Lister Institute, 180–81

Liverant, Bettina, 139

llamas: agency of, 317; ancestry of, 323; Andean homeland of, 325; and animal labour, 331; as arid adapted, 324; as camelid species, 317, 323; colours and patterns of, 324; and concept of diaspora, 14; and domesticated, 323–24; entanglement with humans, 318; and Europeans, 326, 328; as gifts, 329; in global circulation, 315–18, 328–29, 332; habitats of, 317; mummies of, 323; products of, 327; ritual role of, 326; throughout South America, 319; in the US, 330–31; wool of, 317, 324; in zoos, 324, 328. See also Spook (llama)

London Correspondence School, 117, 120, 126, 129; The Veterinary Science, 120, 126, 128

London Veterinary Correspondence School. See London Correspondence School

Long, William J., 142

M

Mackenzie, William Lyon, 271

Manwood, John, 391; Treatise of the Forest Laws, 391

Marchal, Paul, 168

Marengo (horse), 23

Marra, Kim, 31

Marx, Karl, 26

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, 346; The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, 346

Matlass, David, 140

McKeon, Dennis, 103, 105–6

McLean, William B., 202

McShane, Clay, 51

Mendes, Jeremy, 245

mice, 178, 182, 391

Micklethwaite, F. W., 6

Milligan, Ian, 94, 285

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 342

Mitchell, W. J. T., 352–53; What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, 352

Mizelle, Brett, 345

Molina, Juan Ignacio, 326–27

Möllhausen, Balduin, 79–81; Diary of the Mississippi, 79

Mongolia, 22–23, 29, 31; horse as national emblem of, 33; steppes of, 19; horse culture of, 3

Moore, Katherine, 327

Morris, David Copland, 149

Morris, Margaretta Hare, 13, 157–69; Asa Fitch, 166–67; and Cecidomyia culmicola, 169; and fly specimens, 164–67; as scientific artist, 161; of unknown fly by, 160–61, 164–66; erasures of, 160–61, 164, 169; reactions to findings of, 162–64, 166–69

Moses Brings Plenty, 77

Muir, John, 149; Stickeen, 149

Murie, Adolph, 238

Murie, Olaus, 238, 245

museums: Royal Ontario Museum, 357, 367; Whyte Museum, 262; C. A. V. Barker Museum of Canadian Veterinary History, 126; Circus World Museum, 225; American Museum of Natural History, 377, 399; Horniman Museum and Gallery, 377; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), 371–72, 374–76, 378–79, 383; natural history museums, 373–74, 376, 383–84; Naturalis, 374, 379–82; Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 374, 376; Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NRM), 374, 376–79, 382; Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, 378

N

Nadasdy, Paul, 11

Nance, Susan: 236; The Historical Animal, 5

Nash, Linda, 7, 68

National Greyhound Association (NGA), 93, 95, 97–102, 105–7, 109, 111

National Greyhound Hall of Fame, 92–93

National Sporting Library, 92

Nawa, Kohei, 381

Ned (elephant), 218; background of, 218–19, 222; and circus life, 220, 228; death of, 229; final years of, 228–29; historical records of, 220–21; joining Al G. Barnes Circus, 224; and Mena, 219–22, 228; name changed to Tusko, 224; stories of, 222, 227, 229–30; as Tusko, 224, 226–29; at Woodland Park Zoo, 229. See also elephants; Tusko (elephant)

New York Times, 137, 141–42, 212, 224

New York Women’s League for Animals, 142

Nye, Elwood, 83

O

O’Gorman, Emily, 9

Oceti Sakowin, 73, 75, 77, 79

Ogden, Laura, 318

Olmstead, Alan, 59, 66

Olson, Kathryn, 138

Ontario Beekeeping Association (OBA), 52, 56, 62, 65

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, 65; An Act for the Further Protection of Bees, 65

Ontario Veterinary Association, 118

Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), 117–18, 120–21, 129, 131

Ontario Veterinary Medical Association, 126

Ontario Veterinary Practice Board, 129

oral history: and animal history, 27, 29, 41, 97, 214; limitations of, 9, 13; and Indigenous knowledge, 22; and oral historians, 27, 31, 96; and oral tradition, 34; of horses, 22, 41

Ottawa Anti-Vivisection Society, 190. See also antivivisection movement

Ottawa Humane Society, 345

Our Dumb Animals, 10, 142–43

Owens, Trevor, 96

oxen, 347, 350–51

Oxford Handbook on the History of Medicine, 175

P

Padilla, Thomas, 96

Pahdopony, Juanita, 80

Panic of 1837, 157, 161

Paris Green, 64–65

Pasteur Laboratories, 180

Patterson, Penny, 398

Pearson, Susan, 8

Pellett, Frank C., 56

Pepperberg, Irene, 398

Phelps, Oliver, 348–51, 353

Philo, Chris, 269

Pigafetta, Antonio, 326

pigs, 292–93, 297, 306, 344–46

Pleistocene, 39, 323

Pliny the Elder, 200

Plumwood, Val, 252, 261

pneumonia, 124, 131–33

Powell, E. Alexander, 141

Proctor, Robert N., 176, 191

Przewalski, Nikołaj, 19

Przewalski’s horse, 19, 20–21, 40–41. See also takhis

Puente, Javier, 329

R

rabbits, 142, 144, 391–93, 395

racial discrimination: 161, 169, 323

racoons, 148, 255

Rader, Karen, 182

radio-telemetry, 254; data, 239, 242, 249; equipment, 239; locating bears with, 241, 246, 253; as method of locating animals, 238; technology, 238

Reaves, John, 208

Reno, Marcus, 82

Retired Greyhounds as Pets (ReGAP), 107–8

Rhode, Paul, 60, 68

Ridgway, Sam, 202; and Deborah Duffield, 204; Dolphin Doctor, 213; Mammals of the Sea, 212; and Tuffy (dolphin), 203–6, 209–10, 213–14; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 202, 212

Ritvo, Harriet: The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, 4, 389

Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center, 225

Roberts, Charles G. D., 245

Roberts, G. D., 142

Robichaud, Andrew: Animal City: The Domestication of America, 292, 310

Roosevelt, Theodore, 143, 227

Roscher, Mieke, 32

Ross, Wally, 203–4, 206

Rothfels, Nigel, 4, 138

Roux, Emile, 189

Ruhe, Louis, 219, 222

Russell, Edmund, 50

Russell, Nerissa, 325

Ryan, John M., 82, 84

S

Sagard, Gabriel, 1–3, 11; Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons, 2

Sale, Charles, 146

Sanchez, Mark, 300, 307

Sanofi Pasteur, 176–77, 184

Say, Thomas, 158–60, 163, 165, 167

Schiebinger, Londa, 176, 191

Seabiscuit (horse), 23

Sealab II, 199, 207–8, 214

Sealab III, 210

seals, 137, 140–41, 145, 255

The Secret History of the Mongols, 20

Seefeldt, Douglas, 286

Sellers, Chris, 66

sensory history, 24, 29, 34, 41

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 142, 245

Seventh Cavalry, 83–84

sharks, 199, 202, 207, 255

Shaw, David Gary, 4

sheep, 317, 324, 331, 340, 389

Sherow, James, 75

Simon, Roger: and Jennifer Bonnell, 384

Sinclair, Upton, 293

Sitting Bull, 77

slaughterhouses, 292–93, 296, 299, 302–6, 309, 370. See also butchering

Smith, Clinton, 81

Smith, John G., 65, 68

Smith, William F., 222

Snow, Sasha, 258

Snyder, Bill, 315

social history, 8, 25, 292

Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCAs), 8, 10, 141–42, 293–94, 305; American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 141; Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 345; San Francisco SPCA (SFSPCA), 305–9, 311

Soussloff, Catherine, 372, 378

spatial history, 292, 295, 311. See also The Stanford Spatial History Project (SHP),

The Stanford Spatial History Project (SHP), 292, 294–95, 298, 303–4, 306–7. See also “Animal City” Spatial History Lab project; spatial history

Spook (llama), 227, 315–17, 328. See also llamas

squirrels, 149, 391

stallions. See horses,

Stanley, Agnes, 188

Stein, Charles A., 83

Steinberg, Theodore, 292

Steiner, Erik, 298, 304, 307

The Stockman Guide and Manual to Husbandry, 120, 122–25, 127

Stoler, Ann Laura, 235

Strunk, Simon, 175

Styran, Roberta, 349

Sweeny, Robert, 284–85

T

takhis, 20–21, 26, 36–37; food resources of, 36; as “free or spirit horse,” 19; growing populations of, 37; interbreeding of, 39; narrative descriptions of, 37; and reintroduction to Mongolia, 20–21; and rewilding efforts, 39, 41; taxonomic position of, 37; as wild horses, 39, 41. See also horses; Przewalski’s horse

tamaga, 32–33, 38

tamga. See tamaga

tamgha. See tamaga

Tarr, Joel, 51

taxidermy, 23, 138; practice, 373; process, 373, 381; and taxidermied animals, 371, 374, 381, 383

Taylor, Robert, 349

Terry, Alfred, 83

tetanus, 13, 176, 183

Thomas, Lynn, 26

Thomas, William G., 282, 286

Thompson, J. Gurnley, 121, 122; The Domestic Encyclopedia of Facts or Farmers, Mechanics, and Household Manual, 120–21, 123, 127

Toronto Humane Society, 147

Tortorici, Zac, 5

Townsend, Charles, 145–46

Townsend, Gordon, 57

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 235–36

Tuffy (dolphin), 13, 227; agency of, 200; background of, 199–200, 203–4, 207, 214; begins open water work, 206, 208; death of, 200, 210, 212–13; in The Dolphins That Joined the Navy, 204; evidence in archives of, 200; Deborah Duffield, 204–6, 214; recovery of ordnance by, 208; and oral history, 200; personality of, 204–5, 210, 214; and public interest, 199, 207; and Sam Ridgway, 206, 212, 214; and Sealab II, 199, 208; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 200, 203, 209

Turkel, William J., 286

Turley, James, 82–84

Tusko (elephant), 200; background of, 224; and Diamond, 224; final years of, 228–29; handlers of, 226, 229; name changed from Ned to, 224; as Ned, 224, 226–29; and rampage in Sedro-Woolley, 224, 226; sources on the life of, 226; stories of, 224, 227, 230; at Woodland Park Zoo, 229. See also Ned (elephant)

U

US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 199–200, 203, 209–10, 212–14

V

Vaillant, John, 258

Van Der Byl, Major Charles C.,

ventriloquism: as risk of animal history, 3, 8, 15, 29

vernacular knowledge, 37, 42

veterinarians, 122, 126, 131, 331–32; in rural areas, 117–19; and London Correspondence School, 126; view of animal health manuals, 117–18. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinary medicine

veterinary medicine, 119; as costly, 117–18, 122, 131; demand for knowledge of, 119, 126; development of, 117; farmers’ limited access to, 122; institutionalization in Canada of, 126, 129, 132; and Veterinary Science Association, 129; and veterinary training, 118–19. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinarians

Veterinary Science Practice Act, 126, 129

vicuñas, 14, 324, 326; as camelid species, 317, 323; conservation challenges of, 328; throughout South America, 322, 332; as water dependent, 324; wool of, 328

visual analysis, 341–42, 345, 348, 352–53; and animal history, 342; defined, 342; relationship to contextual analysis, 345. See also contextual analysis,

vivisection, 187–88, 190. See also antivivisection movement,

von Hartenfels, Georg Christoph Petri, 218; Elephantographia curiosa, 218

Von Hear, Nicholas, 318

W

Wade, Evelyn, 178–79

Waite, Merton B., 66

Walker, Brett, 236, 332

Walker, Graham, 38, 40

Walton, Homer, 222

Wendake, 1–2

Wendat (people), 1–3

Weyodi (Comanche author), 81

White Hat, Albert, 73–74

White, Richard, 51, 252; Organic Machine, 51

Wilson, Robert M., 238

Wintermantel, Morris, 203–4

Wischermann, Clemens, 279

wolves, 236, 252, 254

women: and the American Philosophical Society (APS), 161; in the antivivisection movement, 188; and fur fashion 139–42, 144. See also gender

Wood, Forrest, 204, 208, 210

Woodcock Jr., William “Buckles,” 218

Woods, Abigail, 119

World War I, 137, 139, 180, 360

World War II, 57, 140, 147, 181, 201

Worster, Donald, 38

Wright, Mabel Osgood, 143

X

Xenophon, 77–78, 80; The Art of Horsemanship, 77

Y

You, Chengcheng, 149

Z

zel lines, 26–27

zooethnography, 31

zoos: archives of, 218; Central Park Zoo, 315; in cities, 293; Copenhagen zoo, 397; and elephants, 226, 228; Hogle Zoo, 217; in Kansas City, 329; petting zoos, 324, 328; spatial arrangement of, 362; and takhis, 20, 41; and wild animals, 138, 220, 397; Woodland Park Zoo, 221, 225, 229

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