Last week NPR had a story called What (Not?) To Do When You Meet the Last Great Wild Buffalo. It is about the efforts of William Hornaday to preserve what he believed were some of the last bison. The story reminded me of a document I came across last year:
THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON.
BY
WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
Superintendent of the National Zoological Park.
This document is available in the library and online through Project Gutenberg. Published in 1889 the document describes the animals and their destruction. Images of the of buffalo killed by Hornaday for exhibition are included.
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