Volume 5: Wild Animals
General Introduction
Volume 5 Introduction
Part 1. Hunting
1. John James Audubon, “Scipio and the Bear”, from Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831), pp. 479-82
2. Francis Allyn Olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1841), pp. 56-8, 61-7, 79-80, 113-15, 155-59, 181-84.
3. J. Ross Browne, “The Coast Rangers: A Chronicle of Events in California”, Harper’s Magazine 23, no. 137 (October 1861): pp. 598, 602-6.
4. William E. Webb, [Two Methods of Bison Hunting], from Buffalo Land: An Authentic Narrative of the Adventures and Misadventures of a Late Scientific and Sporting Party Upon the Great Plains of the West (Cincinnati: E. Hannaford & Co., 1872), pp. 252-63, 281-87.
5. Is the Freedman a “Game Destroyer”? Letters to the Editor of Forest and Stream (1882-1883)
5.1 M., “Quail in Virginia”, Forest and Stream 19, no. 21 (December 21, 1882): p. 409
5.2 M. & N.A.T., “The Freedman and the Quail”, Forest and Stream 20, no. 5 (March 1, 1883): pp. 87–8.
5.3 “Rallywood,” “The Negroes and the Birds”, Forest and Stream 20, no. 1 (February 1, 1883): pp. 7-8.
6. J. M. T., “Chasing Antelopes.” The Philadelphia Times [Philadelphia, PA], October 31, 1886, 12.
7. Kirk Munroe, “Alligator Hunting with Seminoles”, Cosmopolitan Magazine 13, no. 5 (September 1892): pp. 576–81.
8. C. B. Sedgwick, “Coyote Hunting for Scalps”, The Overland Monthly 19, no. 110 (February 1892): pp. 192–95.
9. Theodore Sherman Palmer, “Extermination of Noxious Animals by Bounties”, from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1896 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897), pp. 55-9, 62-6.
10. Paulina Brandreth, “Hints on Deer Shooting”, Forest and Stream 63, no. 14 (October 1, 1904): pp. 281–83.
11. Robert White Williams, “The Game Warden of To-Day”, from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907), pp. 213-19, 222.
12. William Temple Hornaday, [On the “Army of Destruction”], from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1913), pp. 53-4, 56-66, 69-71, 99-01, 105-09, 113, 203-06.
13. Aldo Leopold, “Wild Lifers vs. Game Farmers: A Plea for Democracy in Sport”, Bulletin of the American Game Protective Association 8, no. 2 (April 1919): pp. 6–7.
14. Dixon L. Merritt, “World’s Greatest Animal Criminal Dead”, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1921)
Part 2. Forms and Institutions of Display
15. Charles Willson Peale and Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois, A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel H. Smith, 1796), pp. iv-viii, 1-4, 6-7, 11-14, 22, 26-9, 35, 42-4.
16. [Anon.], “Menagerie”, The New-York Mirror [New York City, NY], January 26, 1833, p. 239.
17. S. G., “Visit of the Pupils of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb to the Menagerie”, Youth’s Cabinet 6, no. 12 (June 15, 1843): pp. 91–2.
18. [Anon.], “Conquering an Elephant”, Spirit of the Times 18, no. 1 (February 26, 1848): pp. 4–5.
19. [Anon.], [Performing Monkeys], from Haney’s Art of Training Animals: A Practical Guide for Amateur or Professional Trainers (New York: J. Haney, 1869), pp. 157-64.
20. Mary Dartt, [The Taxidermy of Martha Maxwell], from On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1879), pp. 5-16, 23-7, 29-30, 32-4, 112-13, 117-19, 121-22, 132-33.
21. Phineas Taylor Barnum, [Barnum and His Elephants], from Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Sixty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum (Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1889), pp. 330-33, 338-39, 344-45.
22. Ernest Jarrold, “A Ring-Tail Monkey”, The Brooklyn Citizen [Brooklyn, NY], June 9, 1889, p. 11.
23. William Cameron Coup, “The Perilous Business of Stocking a Menagerie”, from Sawdust and Spangles: Stories and Secrets of the Circus (Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co., 1901), pp. 18-
24. John W. Smith, “Central Park Animals as Their Keeper Knows Them”, Outing 42, no. 2 (May 1903): pp. 248–54
25. Leonidas Hubbard, “What a Big Zoo Means to the People”, Outing 44, no. 6 (September 1904): pp. 671-78.
26. Anna B. Gallup, “‘Plato’ Our Spider Monkey”, The Museum News 5, no. 4 (January 1910): pp. 55–7.
27. George Conklin, “I Become a Lion Trainer”, from The Ways of the Circus: Being the Memories and Adventures of George Conklin, Tamer of Lions (New York: Harper, 1921), pp. 33-56
Part 3. Facing Extinction
28. Robert Annan, “Account of a Skeleton of a Large Animal, Found Near Hudson’s River”, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2, no. 1 (1793): pp. 160–64.
29. Benjamin Smith Barton, [Letter and Notes on the American Mastodon], from Archaeologiae Americanae Telluris Collectanea Et Specimina: Or, Collections, with Specimens, for a Series of Memoirs on Certain Extinct Animals and Vegetables of North-America (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1814), pp. 9-10, 13-19, 46-9, 52-3
30. Nathan Guilford, “Traditions of the Mammoth”, from James Hall (ed.), The Western Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for 1829, (Cincinnati: N. and G. Guilford, 1828), pp. 19-32.
31. George P. Marsh, [On Human Destructiveness], from Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (New York: C. Scribner, 1864), pp. 35-44.
32. Joel A. Allen, “The Extirpation of the Larger Indigenous Mammals of the United States”, The Penn Monthly 7 (October 1876): pp. 794–805.
33. William F. Cody, “The Last of the Buffalo: By Buffalo Bill. Who Has Slain Them by Tens of Thousands?”, New York Journal [New York City, NY], May 16, 1897, p. 28.
34. Robert C. Auld, “A Means of Preserving the Purity and Establishing a Career for the American Bison of the Future”, The American Naturalist 24, no. 285 (September 1890): pp. 787–96.
35. [Anon.], “‘Buffalo’ Jones’ Herd”, The Daily Inter Ocean [Chicago, IL], January 20, 1891, p. 9.
36. Simon Pokagon, “The Wild Pigeon of North America”, The Chautauquan 22, no. 20 (November 1895): pp. 202–6.
37. William T. Hornaday, “The Founding of the Wichita National Bison Herd”, Annual Report of the American Bison Society, 1905-1907 (New York: American Bison Society, 1908), pp. 55-
38. Clifton F. Hodge, [Articles on the Passenger Pigeon Investigation], Nature-Study Review and The Auk (1910-1912)
38.1 Clifton F. Hodge, “Passenger Pigeon Investigation”, Nature-Study Review 6, no. 5 (May
1910): pp. 110–11.
38.2 ––––, “The Passenger Pigeon Investigation”, The Auk 28, no. 1 (1911): pp. 49–53.
38.3 ––––, “A Last Word on the Passenger Pigeon”, The Auk 29, no. 2 (1912): pp. 169–75.
39. Walter L. Hahn, “The Future of the North American Fauna”, Popular Science Monthly 83 (August 1913): pp. 169–77.
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