2. Hornaday letter to Josephine Hornaday, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 1, 1877–1900.
3. Jean Piper, “Zoo Man Convinced of Evolution Theory,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 5, 1925.
4. “W.T. Hornaday, 78 Today, Frets About the Rhino,” New York World-Telegram, December 7, 1932.
5. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 6.
6. Wilson, Wilson’s American Ornithology, p. 358.
7. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 6.
8. Duncan, National Parks, pp. 43–47.
9. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 8.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., chapter 20, p. 5.
12. Letter from Hornaday to Charles Bessey, December 16, 1897, cited in Dehler, “American Crusader.”
13. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 5.
14. Ibid., chapter 20, p. 8.
15. Hornaday, Destruction of Our Birds and Mammals, p. 78.
16. Ibid., p. 77.
17. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 9.
18. Hornaday, Destruction of Our Birds and Mammals, p. 81.
19. Ibid., pp. 87, 89.
20. Ibid., p. 94.
21. Ibid., pp. 87, 89.
22. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, p. 226.
23. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 272.
24. Ibid., pp. 272, 273.
25. Hornaday, “On the Destruction of Our Birds and Animals,” p. 281.
26. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 206.
27. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 7.
28. Ibid, chapter 20, p. 8.
CHAPTER 17: EMPIRE OF THE BUFFALO
1. McHugh, Time of the Buffalo, pp. 3, 4; also Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior, pp. 626, 627.
2. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon, p. 174.
3. Ibid., p. 177.
4. Ibid., p. 180.
5. Ibid., p. 264.
6. George Parker Winship, The Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896) p. 581.
7. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 332.
8. Ibid.
9. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 197.
10. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, pp. 258, 259.
11. Ibid., p. 263.
12. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 200.
13. Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior, p. 603.
14. The Wichita Buffalo Range, Tenth Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society, 1905, p. 200.
15. Erdoes, American Indian Myths and Legends, pp. 490, 491.
16. Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior, pp. 600–603.
17. Ibid., p. 581.
18. Ibid., pp. 595, 609, 611; Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon, 311.
19. Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior, pp. 624, 626.
20. “Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge,” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, http://digital.library.okstate.edu.
21. American Bison Society, http://www.americanbisonsocietyonline.org/.
22. “15 Buffalo to Go Back to the Ranges: Cowboy Rush Here to Take Part of the Zoo Back to Oklahoma,” New York Times, October 6, 1907.
23. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 190.
24. “Bison Preserves,” New York Times, November 3, 1907.
25. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 269.
26. Ibid., p. 257.
27. Duncan, National Parks, pp. 45–47.
28. Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior, p. 627.
CHAPTER 18: OUR VANISHING WILDLIFE
1. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, p. 3.
2. Duncan, National Parks, p. 83.
3. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 161.
4. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, p. 114.
5. Thirty Years War for Wild Life, pp. 155–60; “Restricts Sale of Game: Gov. Dix Signs the Bayne Bill Protecting Native Wild Animals,” New York Times, June 27, 1911.
6. Letter to Josephine Hornaday, dated simply “Thursday, 7:15 a.m. 1911,” Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 1, folder 3.
7. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 160.
8. Henry Wood Elliot: Defender of the Fur Seal, film by NOAA Ocean Media Center, 2005.
9. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, pp. 172–81.
10. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, p. 5.
11. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, p. 30.
12. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, pp. 116, 117.
13. Ibid., p. 121.
14. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, p. 128.
15. Ibid., p. 129.
16. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 199.
17. Quoted in Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, p. 129.
18. Hornaday, Steam Roller.
19. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, pp. 130–31.
20. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 202.
21. Ibid., p. 266.
CHAPTER 19: TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF WAR
1. “Animal Man,” Time, May 31, 1926; “Hornaday Retires as Director of Zoo,” New York Times, May 21, 1926.
2. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 116.
3. Ibid., pp. 116, 117.
4. Ibid., p. 410.
5. Hornaday papers, dated September 11, 1919, Library of Congress, box 1, September 1929.
6. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 45.
7. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 279.
8. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 16.
9. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. 184.
10. New York Times Magazine, October 13, 1935, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 101.
11. Bridges, Gathering of Animals, p. 287.
12. From Columbus Dispatch, quoted in “Alaska Big Game Endangered by Pot-Hunters and Wolves,” Literary Digest 65 (May 8, 1920): 92.
13. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, pp. 187–91.
14. Ibid., p. 191.
15. Hornaday, Eighty Fascinating Years, chapter 20, p. 13.
16. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. xi.
17. Ibid., p. 1.
18. Ibid., p. 8.
19. Ibid., p. 8.
EPILOGUE: HIS INDOMITABLE PERSISTENCE
1. Letter to FDR, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, Box H, correspondence 1930–1937.
2. Quotes from Life, January 4, 1937.
3. From a letter to Hornaday’s nephew Willis, dated September 2, 1936, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress.
4. Ishbel Ross, “Hornaday Wed 50 Years; Pays Tribute to Wife,” New York Tribune, September 12, 1929.
5. Hornaday letter to Edmund Seymour, November 11, 1932, archives of American Bison Society, box 2.
6. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 373.
7. Letter to FDR.
8. Letter from FDR to Hornaday, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box H, correspondence 1930–1937.
9. Letter to Dodge, ibid.
10. “Mount Hornaday,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/.
11. Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 10, general correspondence, Mo—My; “Ichthyology,” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 26, no. 9 (September 15, 1936): 376–77; Hornaday, Two Years in the Jungle, p. 386.
12. Graham, Man’s Dominion, p. 179.
13. Hornaday, Thirty Years War for Wild Life, p. iv.
14. Wildlife Conservation Society website, http://www.wcs.org/.
15. “American Bison,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/.
16. “NOAA Reports Northern Fur Seal Pup Estimate Decline,” NOAA website, http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/.
17. “Snowy Egret Biological Status Review Report,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, March 31, 2011.
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