Yellowstone and the Smithsonian by Diane Smith

Author:Diane Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780700623907
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

The Greatest Game Preserve in the Country

City of Refuge or a National Zoological Park

When the Yellowstone Park was organized it was believed that a permanent place of refuge for the buffalo had been secured, and that out of the natural increase of the hundreds then remaining representative herds would be preserved for future generations. It seems now evident that the conditions in the Yellowstone region are such that the extermination of the Government herd of buffalo may be anticipated, and that it may be accomplished within a very short space of time.

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