The Extermination of the American Bison

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1. 1SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
2. 2THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON.
3. 3Superintendent of the National Zoological Park.
4. 4Inscription
5. 5From the Report of the National Museum, 1886-’87, pages 369-548, and plates I-XXII.
6. 6WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1889.
7. 7CONTENTS.
8. 8Group of American Bisons in the National Museum. Collected and mounted by W. T. Hornaday.
9. 9LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
10. 10MAPS.
11. 11PREFATORY NOTE.
12. 12THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON,
13. 13PART I.—LIFE HISTORY OF THE BISON.
14. 14I. Discovery of the species.
15. 15II. Geographical Distribution.
16. 16Head of Buffalo Bull From specimen in the National Museum Group. Reproduced from the Cosmopolitan Magazine, by permission of the publishers.
17. 17III. Abundance.
18. 18Slaughter of Buffalo on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Reproduced from “The Plains of the Great West,” by permission of the author, Col. R. I. Dodge.

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