...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」
...Allen’s admirable monograph of “The American Bison,” in which theauthor has brought together, with great labor and invariable accuracy, avast amount of historical data bearing upon this subject...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—There is no evidence that the bison ever inhabited Maryland,except what has already been adduced with reference to the District ofColumbia...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Of all the quadrupeds that have lived upon the earth, probably no otherspecies has ever marshaled such innumerable hosts as those of theAmerican bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...But, despite his larger bulk, hisappearance is not nearly so striking and impressive as that of the maleAmerican bison...
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」
...If we may judge by this, the horn begins tobreak when the bison is about ten or eleven years old, and the stubbingprocess gradually continues during the rest of his life...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Judging by theteeth, and also the oldest horns I have seen, I am of the opinion thatthe natural life time of the bison is about twenty-five years; certainlyno less...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...If it is still in existence, and is really white, it isto be hoped that so great a rarity may find a permanent abiding place insome museum where the remains of Bison americanus are properlyappreciated...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...If a warm day came, and thawed the upper surface of the snowsufficiently for succeeding cold to freeze it into a crust, the outlookfor the bison began to be serious...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—Numerous attempts have been made to utilize thewoolly hair of the bison in the manufacture of textile fabrics...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—Thismuch-visited collection contains four bison, an adult bull and cow, atwo-year-old calf, and a yearling...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...This occurred almost exclusively in the immediatevicinity of salt springs, around which the bison congregated in greatnumbers, and made their wholesale slaughter of easy accomplishment...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The disappearance of the bison from the eastern United States was due toits consumption as food...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
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