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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream

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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream

A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-oneâ€”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 manâ€™s outsize vision.
When Dick Haskinâ€™s plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dickâ€™s devotion to primates didnâ€™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 Royalâ€™s economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskinâ€™s dream.
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.
Country USA
Brand Little a
Manufacturer Little A
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-03-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781503901506

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