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Description of the disappearance of the American bison population of the Dakota Territory in the early 1880s.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
Your TR Source
American bison populations
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Roy N. Bunn
President Roosevelt tells Roy N. Bunn that he personally witnessed the extermination of the bison. It happened because of hunting, not because of the climate.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-03-13
Creator(s)
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Homer Davenport
President Roosevelt informs Homer Davenport of the current lack of funding for stocking Yellowstone Park with birds. Roosevelt adds that he has been working hard to get Congress to “give enough money for propagating the buffalo” and consequently nothing can be done for the time being.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-16
Creator(s)
Letter from Roy N. Bunn to Theodore Roosevelt
Roy Bunn thanks President Roosevelt for the letter regarding extermination of bison. He proposes the theory that large herds of bison may have been overcome by cold and starvation, not hunted by Indians as they would not have left remaining skeletons.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-03-19