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Impressively detailed mid-20th-century pictorial map of the United States, prepared for the National Rifle Association (NRA) to promote hunting across the country.
The map features hundreds of illustrations of big game, small game, and waterfowl located near their approximate habitats. It also features dozens of animal range maps on its sides.
Strangely, the map blurs the line on what could legally be hunted and what could not. For instance, in southern Arizona, there is a prominent illustration of a North American Jaguar. These big cats had been eliminated from the United States by hunting in the 1960s, with Arizona banning jaguar hunting in 1969. Since the late 1990s, a few jaguars have made their way back into Arizona from Mexico. Likewise, the eastern timber wolf (of Minnesota and Michigan) was listed as endangered in 1973, the year after this map was produced. Today, hunting ocelot in Texas is also prohibited.
This map follows the 1956 original by Ira Moss, and was redone in 1972 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NRA.
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