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Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier

Reading Time: 5 minutesNineteenth-century US print media is rife with interactions between white settlers and the wolves they slaughtered. Print played host to the evolutions of folkloric villains, heroes, and gender norms in ways that directly impacted national identity and settler conceptions of the so-called American frontier. North American frontiers provided an opportunity for settler women to embody gender roles different from those handed down to them in European folklore. What would we learn about these ideas by approaching the settler women with blood on their hands?

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An Earthwatch trip leader holds a captured bank vole while his colleague uses an instrument to measure the vole’s tail.

The case for weighing voles on your vacation 

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