1854-1937

William Hornaday admired the American bison. He wanted every American to see the beautiful animal that was once plentiful across the Great Plains. But in 1886 he made a shocking prediction. Unless something changed quickly, bison would disappear from America forever.

Explains the reasons why the American bison came close to extinction, discusses the efforts of William Temple Hornaday to inform people of the crisis in bison populations and to start a bison herd at the Bronx Zoo, and looks at how the governments of the U.S. and Canada helped by creating wildlife preserves for the animals.