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When we study the history of colonial North America, we tend to focus on European colonists and their rivalries with each other and with Native Americans. But humans weren\\u2019t the only living beings occupying North America during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Rivalries existed between humans and animals too. And these human-animal rivalries impacted and shaped how European colonists used and settled North American lands.
Andrea Smalley, an associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of Wild By Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization, joins us to explore the many ways wild animals shaped colonists\\u2019 ideas and behavior as they settled and interacted with North American lands.
Show Notes:\\xa0https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/168
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