Comments on: Interview with Author Richard Rattenbury http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-author-richard-rattenbury.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Fri, 24 May 2013 20:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: R.L. Wilson http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-author-richard-rattenbury.htm#comment-133447 R.L. Wilson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:23:55 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681488#comment-133447 Richard Rattenbury's HUNTING THE AMERICAN WEST is a masterpiece, not only a grand and insightful work of historical research, but a beautifully illustrated, designed and produced art volume. It takes a book of this magnitude to reach the millions of ignorant individuals and groups in the public who do not understand hunting . . . who walk into a natural history museum and think of the exhibits of birds and wild animals as having died of old age. What a wonderful documentary film the book would make, for PBS' "American Experience." The book also should be developed into a major traveling museum exhibition. This is a book that one cannot put down, and one in which each chapter could be developed into yet another 400-page masterpiece. Richard Rattenbury's HUNTING THE AMERICAN WEST is a masterpiece, not only a grand and insightful work of historical research, but a beautifully illustrated, designed and produced art volume.

It takes a book of this magnitude to reach the millions of ignorant individuals and groups in the public who do not understand hunting . . . who walk into a natural history museum and think of the exhibits of birds and wild animals as having died of old age.

What a wonderful documentary film the book would make, for PBS' "American Experience." The book also should be developed into a major traveling museum exhibition.

This is a book that one cannot put down, and one in which each chapter could be developed into yet another 400-page masterpiece.

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