[Illustration: (Inscription) Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. Author of "Hunting
Trips of a Ranchman," With the compliments of The Author, W.T. Hornaday.]

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

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THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON.

BY

WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,

_Superintendent of the National Zoological Park._

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From the Report of the National Museum, 1886-'87, pages 369-548, and
plates I-XXII.

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WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1889.