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IN the whole course of the history of man's relations with the lower animals, no sadder chapter will ever be written than that which tells of the practical extinction of the bison, which, only a short twenty years since, wandered in countless thousands over the vast prairies of the northern half of the American continent. This mournful story—mournful alike to the naturalist, to the sportsman, and to the trader—the author of this memoir recounts in such a full and lucid manner as to have practically exhausted the subject. Indeed, this memoir, in conjunction wiih Mr. J. A. Allen's monograph of the recent and extinct American bisons, does all that can be done in the way of literature to atone for the loss of the animal itself as a feature of the North American continent.
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L., R. The Extermination of the American Bison1. Nature 42, 11–13 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042011a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/042011a0