THE AMERICAN BISON. SHALL THE BUFFALO BECOME EXTINCT? THE CORBIN PARK HERD. LETTER OF WILLIAM E. CHANDLER TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. THE ATTENTION OF NATURALISTS INVITED
One-page circular, 8 x 10 inches. Horizontal folding crease, minor chipping; very good. William E. Chanlder was a New Hampshire attorney who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Chester Arthur and United States Senator from 1887-1901. This circular publishes his letter dated August 10, 1904 to James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, regarding the future of a herd of 175 bison living in Corbin Park -- a private, 24,000-acre preserve in New Hampshire owned by the Blue Mountain Forest Association (the Corbin family's corporation). Chandler, a trustee of the Association, notes the endangered state of the bison as well as the expense in maintaining the herd and asks the federal government to act to preserve the herd permanently -- either by purchase and relocation to Yellowstone National Park or by other means, for "unless the government adopts careful measures for such preservation, the race of buffalo will become extinct." Not recorded in OCLC.
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