Zoo Nebraska : the dismantling of an American dream
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Published
New York : Little A, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : map, portrait ; 22 cm
Status
Meadville Public Library
590.73 Vaughan
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590.73 Vaughan
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Captive chimpanzees -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Captive wild animals -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Haskin, Richard A., -- 1950-
Midwest Primate Center (Royal, Neb.)
Primates -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Primatologists -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoo animals -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoo Nebraska (Royal, Neb.)
Zoos -- Economic aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoos -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Captive wild animals -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Haskin, Richard A., -- 1950-
Midwest Primate Center (Royal, Neb.)
Primates -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Primatologists -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoo animals -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoo Nebraska (Royal, Neb.)
Zoos -- Economic aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
Zoos -- Social aspects -- Nebraska -- Royal.
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Published
New York : Little A, [2019].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one--where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man's outsize vision. When Dick Haskin's plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick's devotion to primates didn't die with her. He returned to his hometown with Reuben, an adolescent chimp, in the bed of a pickup truck and transformed a trailer home into the Midwest Primate Center. As the tourist trade multiplied, so did the inhabitants of what would become Zoo Nebraska, the unlikeliest boon to Royal's economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskin's dream.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vaughan, C. (2019). Zoo Nebraska: the dismantling of an American dream (First edition.). Little A.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vaughan, Carson. 2019. Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream. Little A.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vaughan, Carson. Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream Little A, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vaughan, Carson. Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream First edition., Little A, 2019.
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