The Extermination of the American Bison - Couverture souple

Hornaday, Mr William T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1508610479 ISBN 13 : 9781508610472

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1889

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It is hoped that the following historical account of the discovery, partial utilization, and almost complete extermination of the great American bison may serve to cause the public to fully realize the folly of allowing all our most valuable and interesting American mammals to be wantonly destroyed in the same manner. The wild buffalo is practically gone forever, and in a few more years, when the whitened bones of the last bleaching skeleton shall have been picked up and shipped East for commercial uses, nothing will remain of him save his old, well-worn trails along the water-courses, a few museum specimens, and regret for his fate. If his untimely end fails even to point a moral that shall benefit the surviving species of mammals which are now being slaughtered in like manner, it will be sad indeed. Although Bison americanus is a true bison, according to scientific classification, and not a buffalo, the fact that more than sixty millions of people in this country unite in calling him a “buffalo,” and know him by no other name, renders it quite unnecessary for me to apologize for following, in part, a harmless custom which has now become so universal that all the naturalists in the world could not change it if they would.

Biographie de l'auteur :

William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was one of the founders of what would become the Smithsonian's National Zoo and the Bronx Zoo. Hanna Rose Shell has published articles in The Boston Globe and Smithsonian magazine. She is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 1889
• ISBN 10: 1508610479
• ISBN 13: 9781508610472
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178