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Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West . Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography. By Jen Corrinne Brown. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. x + 238 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) In Trout Culture , Jen Corinne Brown deploys cultural, social, and environmental analysis to explore the historical origins of the Rocky Mountain West’s infatuation with fly-fishing for trout. Noting that this activity essentially amounts to glorified “bug puppetry,” and that it has a centuries-old global history, Brown seeks to understand how and why its western enthusiasts have come to perceive fly-fishing as a nearly religious, transformative experience with a special connection to their region (p. 3). She attributes this development to a prevalent understanding of … Miles.Powell{at}ntu.edu.sg
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