LEADER 00000cam 2200433Ii 4500 001 sky295601295 003 SKY 005 20190909110728.0 008 181109t20192019nyubc 000 0 eng d 015 GBB976680|2bnb 020 9781503901506|q(hardcover) 020 1503901505|q(hardcover) 035 i9781503901506 040 YDX|beng|erda|cYDX|dBDX|dOCLCQ|dYAM|dIZ2|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 043 n-us-nb 082 04 590.73/782/55|223 092 590.73782|bVAU 100 1 Vaughan, Carson,|eauthor. 245 10 Zoo Nebraska :|bthe dismantling of an American dream / |cCarson Vaughan. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bLittle A,|c[2019] 264 4 |c©2019 300 238 pages :|bmap, portrait ;|c22 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-onewhere 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 mans outsize vision. When Dick Haskins plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dicks devotion to primates didnt 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 Royals economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskins dream. 600 10 Haskin, Richard A.,|d1950- 610 20 Zoo Nebraska (Royal, Neb.) 610 20 Midwest Primate Center (Royal, Neb.) 650 0 Captive chimpanzees|xSocial aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Primates|xSocial aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Zoo animals|xSocial aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Captive wild animals|xSocial aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Primatologists|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Zoos|xSocial aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal. 650 0 Zoos|xEconomic aspects|zNebraska|zRoyal.
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