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Book/Printed Material The extermination of the American bison At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

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Title

  • The extermination of the American bison

Other Title

  • At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

Summary

  • A pioneering work in the recognition and public advocacy of wildlife protection issues, written by a former big game hunter who became one of the nation's first prominent (and vociferous) spokesmen for wildlife protection. The book was originally published as part of the Smithsonian's annual Report for 1886-87. The purpose of the work, as Hornaday makes clear in his Prefatory Note, was "to point a moral that shall benefit the surviving species of mammals which are now being slaughtered in like manner," even if the bison itself could no longer be saved. The work gives a lengthy natural history of the bison, followed by a detailed and vehemently denunciatory exploration of its near-extermination (including descriptions of slaughtering practices), and of the feeble efforts to protect it; and it calls on the U.S. Government to take immediate steps to protect the few remaining purebred bison in captivity in order to preserve the species for the future, even if the great herds have dwindled to vanishing. A large map graphically demonstrates the shrinking of the bison's range, from much of the continent early in the eighteenth century to a few small and isolated Western locations in 1880. American Memory.

Names

  • Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
  • Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Washington : Government Printing Office, 1889.

Headings

  • -  American bison
  • -  Wildlife conservation--United States--Sources

Notes

  • -  "From the Report of the National Museum, 1886-'87."
  • -  Separate issue of "The extermination of the American bison, with a sketch of its discovery and life history" originally published in the Report of the United States National Museum, 1887. Lacks only the half title from the original report, p. 367.
  • -  Plates are reproductions of drawings, paintings, and photographs.
  • -  Index, iv p., bound in at front.
  • -  Mar. 10, 1966 ; handwritten note on shelflist card
  • -  LC copy in net-grained cloth binding, stamped: U.S. Government Bindery.
  • -  Bibliographical footnotes.
  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  LC copy has the armorial bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt: Qui plantavit curabit. Inscribed: Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, author of "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," with the compliments of the author, W.T. Hornaday." Gift of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., 1963.
  • -  LAC brd 2018-11-09 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [2], iv, 369-548 p., xxi leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps (1 col. folded) ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QL737.U5 H65 1889

Source Collection

  • Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 66039838

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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