TY - BOOK AU - Hornaday,William T. TI - The Extermination of the American Bison AV - QL PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - American bison KW - Wildlife conservation -- United States -- Sources N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extermination_of_the_American_Bison; Release date is 2006-02-10; Produced by Chuck Greif, Tony Browne and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Extermination of the American Bison" by William T. Hornaday is a book published in 1889. It documents the ecology of bison and their near-complete destruction across the United States through industrial-scale hunting. Hornaday chronicles the species' rapid decline, analyzing causes including unnecessary slaughter and lack of legal protection, while advocating for the survival of remaining bison in Yellowstone. The work includes an account of the Smithsonian's 1886 expedition to collect specimens before extinction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17748 ER -