REFERENCES and SUGGESTED READING
1886 Smithsonian Expedition for Buffalo
Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison, With a Sketch of Its Discovery
and Life History. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889.
Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17748/17748-h/17748-h.htm
____. Endpaper Map: "The Extermination of the American Bison." In Hornaday,
Extermination..., Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.
Cornell University Digital Library, https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3293847
____. “The Passing of the Buffalo,” Pts. 1 and 2. The Cosmopolitan 4, no. 2,
October, 1887:84-98; no. 3, November, 1887:231-43.
American Bison (Buffalo) Group
Coffman, Douglas. “William Hornaday’s Bitter Mission: The Mysterious Journey of Montana’s
Last Wild Bison.” Montana Magazine 105, January/February, 1991.
____. Reflecting the Sublime: The Rebirth of an American Icon. Fort Benton, MT: River &
Plains Society, 2013.
Shell, Hanna Rose. “Last of the Wild Buffalo.” Smithsonian Magazine 30, no. 11, February, 2000.
____. “Skin Deep: Taxidermy, Embodiment, and Extinction in W. T. Hornaday’s Buffalo Group.”
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55, supp. 1, no. 5, 18 October, 2004.
____. The Soul in the Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Construction of the Buffalo Group.
Undergraduate thesis, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1999.
Wonders, Karen Elizabeth. Habitat Dioramas: Illusions of Wilderness in Museums of Natural
History. Doctoral thesis, Uppsala, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993.
William Temple Hornaday
Andrei, Mary Anne. “The Accidental Conservationist: William T. Hornaday, the Smithsonian
Bison Expeditions and the U.S. National Zoo.” Endeavor 29, no. 3, September 2005.
Endeavor, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2005.05.002
Bechtel, Stefan. Mr. Hornaday's War. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012.
Dehler, Gregory J. The Most Defiant Devil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Dolph, James Andrew. “Bringing Wildlife to Millions: William Temple Hornaday the Early Years: 1854-1896.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1975.
Forbes, John Ripley. In the Steps of the Great American Zoologist, William Temple Hornaday.
New York, NY: M. Evans Co., Inc., 1966.
Hornaday, William T. Thirty Years War for Wildlife: Gains and Losses in the Thankless Task.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
____. Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40109/40109-h/40109-h.htm
Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of Natural History
Carmichael, Leonard. “The Smithsonian, Magnet on the Mall.” National Geographic Magazine
117, June, 1960.
Goode, George Brown. “The Museums of the Future,” (1899), in The Origins of Natural Science
in America. Ed., Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
Yochelson, Ellis L. The National Museum of Natural History: 75 Years in the Natural History
Building. Ed., Mary Jarrett. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1985.
American Bison
Bailey, James A. American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon. Helena, MT: Sweetgrass Books, 2013.
Callenbach, Ernest. Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America’s Great Plains.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Dary, David A. The Buffalo Book. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1974.
Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison, With a Sketch of Its Discovery
and Life History. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889.
____. The Extermination of the American Bison. Ed., Hanna Rose Shell. Washington, D.C:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
Lott, Dale F. American Bison: A Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Matthews, Anne. Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America’s Great Plains. New York, NY:
Grove Weidenfeld, 1992, and Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition (Web site), Bozeman, Montana.
https://www.mtwildbison.org/
Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison, With a Sketch of Its Discovery
and Life History. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889.
Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17748/17748-h/17748-h.htm
____. Endpaper Map: "The Extermination of the American Bison." In Hornaday,
Extermination..., Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.
Cornell University Digital Library, https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3293847
____. “The Passing of the Buffalo,” Pts. 1 and 2. The Cosmopolitan 4, no. 2,
October, 1887:84-98; no. 3, November, 1887:231-43.
American Bison (Buffalo) Group
Coffman, Douglas. “William Hornaday’s Bitter Mission: The Mysterious Journey of Montana’s
Last Wild Bison.” Montana Magazine 105, January/February, 1991.
____. Reflecting the Sublime: The Rebirth of an American Icon. Fort Benton, MT: River &
Plains Society, 2013.
Shell, Hanna Rose. “Last of the Wild Buffalo.” Smithsonian Magazine 30, no. 11, February, 2000.
____. “Skin Deep: Taxidermy, Embodiment, and Extinction in W. T. Hornaday’s Buffalo Group.”
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55, supp. 1, no. 5, 18 October, 2004.
____. The Soul in the Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Construction of the Buffalo Group.
Undergraduate thesis, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1999.
Wonders, Karen Elizabeth. Habitat Dioramas: Illusions of Wilderness in Museums of Natural
History. Doctoral thesis, Uppsala, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993.
William Temple Hornaday
Andrei, Mary Anne. “The Accidental Conservationist: William T. Hornaday, the Smithsonian
Bison Expeditions and the U.S. National Zoo.” Endeavor 29, no. 3, September 2005.
Endeavor, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2005.05.002
Bechtel, Stefan. Mr. Hornaday's War. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012.
Dehler, Gregory J. The Most Defiant Devil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Dolph, James Andrew. “Bringing Wildlife to Millions: William Temple Hornaday the Early Years: 1854-1896.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1975.
Forbes, John Ripley. In the Steps of the Great American Zoologist, William Temple Hornaday.
New York, NY: M. Evans Co., Inc., 1966.
Hornaday, William T. Thirty Years War for Wildlife: Gains and Losses in the Thankless Task.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
____. Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40109/40109-h/40109-h.htm
Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of Natural History
Carmichael, Leonard. “The Smithsonian, Magnet on the Mall.” National Geographic Magazine
117, June, 1960.
Goode, George Brown. “The Museums of the Future,” (1899), in The Origins of Natural Science
in America. Ed., Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
Yochelson, Ellis L. The National Museum of Natural History: 75 Years in the Natural History
Building. Ed., Mary Jarrett. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1985.
American Bison
Bailey, James A. American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon. Helena, MT: Sweetgrass Books, 2013.
Callenbach, Ernest. Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America’s Great Plains.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Dary, David A. The Buffalo Book. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1974.
Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison, With a Sketch of Its Discovery
and Life History. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889.
____. The Extermination of the American Bison. Ed., Hanna Rose Shell. Washington, D.C:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
Lott, Dale F. American Bison: A Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Matthews, Anne. Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America’s Great Plains. New York, NY:
Grove Weidenfeld, 1992, and Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition (Web site), Bozeman, Montana.
https://www.mtwildbison.org/