The extermination of the American bison

with a sketch of its discovery and life history.

by William Temple Hornaday

1889 548 pages eng

"When William Temple Hornaday wrote this text for the Smithsonian Institution in 1889, the thirty million buffalo that had once roamed North America had been reduced to a few hundred. Alarmed by this decimation, Hornaday - a hunter, zoologist, writer, and the Smithsonian's chief taxidermist - set ou…