"Map Illustrating the Extermination of the American Bison Prepared by W.T. Hornaday", Smithsonian Institute

This poignant map was prepared by W.T. Hornaday for a report to the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. This map traces in red the boundary of the area once inhabited by buffalo. The area in blue and green reflects the tragic and systematic destruction of these herds. The numbers in green represent the location and number of the wild buffalo in existence by January 1, 1889. Barely 800 bison were known to exist when this map was published. A historically important map that was published in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending 1887, Part II, 1889.

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Condition: A

Folding as issued with full, original margins. Small area of very light foxing in blank ocean and a short tear at left margin just entering blank map, closed on verso with archival tape.