02544cam a2200373 4500 384634131 TxAuBib 20190612120000.0 181109s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781503901506 1503901505 9781503901490 1503901491 (OCoLC)1061792510 TxAuBib Vaughan, Carson,. Zoo Nebraska : the dismantling of an American dream / Carson Vaughan. First edition. New York : Little A, [2019] ©2019. 238 pages : maps, portrait ; 22 cm. Prologue -- Everything must go -- Welcome to Royal -- Meet Dick Haskin -- The primatologist -- A savage celebration -- Here's Johnny -- A Royal welcome -- The poor farm -- Effective immediately -- Rest -- A wildlife learning encounter -- High and mighty -- Limitations -- Thank you from the town board -- The aftermath -- A laundry list of random complaints -- All rise -- Reincarnation. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one--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 man's outsize vision. When Dick Haskin's plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder, Dick's devotion to primates didn'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 Royal's economy in generations and, eventually, the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskin's dream. 20190612. Haskin, Dick, 1961- Zoo Nebraska (Royal, Neb.) Midwest Primate Center (Royal, Neb.) Captive chimpanzees Social aspects Nebraska Royal. Primates Social aspects Nebraska Royal. Zoo animals Social aspects Nebraska Royal. Primatologists Nebraska Royal. Zoos Economic aspects Nebraska Royal. Zoos Social aspects.