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Title

Map Illustrating the Extermination of the American Bison

Creator

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Johnson's Bibliographic Reference

1887-91

Source Document Title

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1887

Creation Date

1887

Description

Prepared by W. T. :Hornaday. Explanation covers 1870-1889.

This map that William Temple Hornaday created in 1886-1887 was later included in a book published for the Smithsonian Institution in 1889 that is considered to be an important early book of the American conservation movement. In addition to describing the life and range of the bison it described their needless slaughter by white hunters and settlers.