...The discovery of the American bison, as first made by Europeans,occurred in the menagerie of a heathen king... 
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—Of the numerous references to the occurrence of the bison inVirginia, it is sufficient to allude to Col...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The most northerly occurrence of the bison is recorded as anobservation of Franklin in 1820 at Slave Point, on the north side ofGreat Slave Lake...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The hair on the head, neck, andforequarters of the aurochs is not nearly so long or luxuriant as on thesame parts of the American bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—By a combination of unfortunatecircumstances, the American bison is destined to go down to posterityshorn of the honor which is his due, and appreciated at only half hisworth...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...After he is threeyears old, the bison adds each year a ring around the base of his horns,the same as domestic cattle...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Therefore, we would naturally expect to findthe hair on those parts shorter and in far less perfect condition thanon the bison of the treeless prairies...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...But for the long hair on the fore quarters, neck,and head the bison would lose all his dignity of appearance with hishair...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...I have more than once beenastonished at the real impregnability of the retreats selected bywounded bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Judging from the number of old leg wounds, fully healed, which I havefound in freshly killed bisons, one may be tempted to believe that abison never died of a broken leg...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Jacobs assuredme that the buffalo used to be very fond of this grass, and that“wherever this grass grew in abundance there were the besthunting-grounds for the bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...It is probably onlythose who have had the bad taste to eat bull-beef who have ever foundoccasion to asperse the reputation of Bison americanus as a beefanimal...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Although the bison was the first wild species to disappear before theadvance of civilization, he served a good purpose at a highly criticalperiod...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...As might be expected, from the time the bison was first seen by whitemen he has always been a conspicuous prize, and being the largest of theland quadrupeds, was naturally the first to disappear...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The extirpation of the bison west of the Rocky Mountains was due tolegitimate hunting for food and clothing rather than for marketablepeltries...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
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