Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History

Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.

• Volume 1: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 1) General IntroductionVolume 1 Introduction1. William Bartram, “Anecdotes of an American Crow”, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal 1 (1804): 89–95.2. Frederick Augustus Rauch, extract from Psychology; or, a View of the Human Soul; Including Anthropology (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1841), pp. 9-17, 30-44.3. Phrenology and Animal “Character” in the American Phrenological Journal (1845-1851)3.1 [Orson Fowler], “The Physiology, Phrenology, and Natural History, of the Ourang Outang, or Chimpanze.” American Phrenological Journal 7, no. 3 (March 1845): 65-70.3.2 “Animal Phrenology.” American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 1 (January 1851): 6-7.3.3 “Animal Phrenology. Number II.” American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 2 (February 1851): 32.4. Lewis Henry Morgan, “Animal Psyhology”, in The American Beaver and His Works (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1868).5. Arthur E. Brown, [Primate Minds and Morals in the Philadelphia Zoo], The American Naturalist (1878-1883)5. 1 Arthur Erwin Brown. “The Serpent and the Ape.” The American Naturalist 12, no. 4 (April 1878): 225–28.5.2 ––––, “Grief in the Chimpanzee.” The American Naturalist 13, no. 3 (March 1879): 173–75.5.3 ––––, “The Kindred of Man.” The American Naturalist 17, no. 2 (February 1883): 119–30.6. Francis Bowen, “The Human and the Brute Mind”, The Princeton Review 56 (May 1880): 321–29, 331-34, 336-38, 340-43.7. William James, “What Is an Instinct?” Scribner’s Magazine 1, no. 3 (March 1887): 355–65.8. Richard Lynch Garner, [Learning the Simian Tongue], from The Speech of Monkeys” (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892), pp. 3-21, 30-9, 57-679. Edward Lee Thorndike, “Do Animals Reason?” Popular Science Monthly 55 (August 1899): 480–490, and “Correspondence: ‘Do Animals Reason?’” Popular Science Monthly 55 (October 1899): 843–847.10. Ernest Ingersoll, “Do Animals Commit Suicide? A Study of Brute Limitations’, in The Wit of the Wild. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906), pp. 196-210.11. William Temple Hornaday, [Animal Crime and Criminal Animals], “The Psychology of Wild Animals”, McClure’s Magazine 30, no. 4 (February 1908): 469–79.12. Margaret Floy Washburn, [Mathods and Challenges in Studying Animal Minds], from The Animal Mind: A Text-Book of Comparative Psychology (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908), pp. 1-5, 7-13, 24-36.13. Charles Abram Ellwood, “The Origin of Society.” American Journal of Sociology 15, no. 3 (November 1909): 394-404.14. Ira Woods Howerth, “The Great War and the Instinct of the Herd”, International Journal of Ethics 29, no. 2 (1919): 174–87.IndexVolume 2: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 2) General IntroductionVolume 2 IntroductionPart 1: The Contested Topography of the Human1. Blackness and Humanity in a Nation of Slavery (1839-1861)1.1 [Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Emily Grimké, and Sarah Moore Grimké], [The Treatment of Slaves], from American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.1.2 Frederick Douglass, extract from The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered: An Address Before the Literary Societies of Western Reserve College, at Commencement, July 12, 1854 (Rochester: Printed by Lee, Mann & Co., 1854), pp. 5-16, 34-6.1.3 John H. Van Evrie, [The Physical Characteristics of the Negro], from Negroes and Negro “Slavery:” The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition (New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1861), pp. 92-7, 105-222. Josiah Clark Nott, “Geographical Distribution of Animals and the Races of Men”, The New-Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 9 (May 1843): 727-746.3. John Fiske, “The Progress from Brute to Man”, The North American Review 117, no. 241 (October 1873): 251–82.4. Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Savagism and Civilization”, fromThe Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. Vol. 2 (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1875), pp. 1-6, 9-13, 18-21, 36-7.5. Antoinette L. B. Blackwell, “Sex and Evolution”, from The Sexes Throughout Nature (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1875), pp. 11-14, 16-46, 48-51, 54-59, 61-4, 79-83, 87-90, 96-99, 105-08, 111-24, 131-32, 135-37.6. Debating “Woman’s Place in Nature”: Lester F. Ward vs. Grant Allen in The Forum (1888-1890)6.1 Lester Frank Ward, “Our Better Halves”, The Forum 6 (November 1888): 266-75.6.2 Grant Allen, “Woman’s Place in Nature”, The Forum 7 (May 1889): 258-63.6.3 ––––, “Woman’s Intuition”, The Forum 9 (May 1890): 333-40.6.4 Lester Frank Ward, “Genius and Woman’s Intuition”, The Forum 9 (June 1890): 401-408.7. William G. Schell, [Does Scripture Deny the Humanity of the Negro?], from Is the Negro a Beast?: A Reply to Chas. Carroll’s Book Entitled “The Negro a Beast.” Proving That the Negro Is Human from Biblical, Scientific, and Historical Standpoints (Moundsville: Gospel Trumpet Pub. Co., 1901), pp. 11-14, 16-22, 26-42.8. Nathaniel S. Shaler, [On the Tribal Spirit and the Categoric Motive], from The Neighbor: The Natural History of Human Contacts (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904), pp. 21-43, 46-47, 192-203.9. Improving the “Human Harvest”: The Promises of American Eugenics (1907-1915)9. 1 David Starr Jordan, The Human Harvest: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: Beacon Press, 1907), pp. 13-28-41-4.9.2 William Isaac Thomas, “Eugenics: The Science of Breeding Men”, American Magazine 68, no. 2 (June 1909): 190–97.9.3 Charles Benedict Davenport, “Eugenics and Euthenics”, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (New York: H. Holt, 1911), pp. 252-54, 260-63.9. 4 Orator Fuller Cook, “Eugenics and Breeding”, Journal of Heredity 5, no. 1 (1914): 30–33.10. Charlotte P. Gilman, “As to Humanness”, from The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture (New York: Charlton Co., 1911), pp. 9-25Part 2: Humane Ethics and Animal Democracy11. Voices of Animal Advocacy in the Early Republic (1787-1792)11.1 [Anon.], “On Cruelty to Inferior Animals”, The New Haven Chronicle, June 12, 1787, 1.11.2 [Anon.], “On Cruelty to Animals”, American Museum, or, Universal Magazine 11, no. 2 (February 1792): 54–56.11.3 Herman Daggett, The Rights of Animals: An Oration, Delivered at the Commencement of Providence-College, September 7, 1791 (Sagg-Harbour: David Frothingham, 1792).12. William A. Alcott, “The Moral Argument”, from Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experiences in All Ages (Boston: Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838), pp. 266-73.13. John Comly, [Learning Kindness to Animals], Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of John Comly, Late of Byberry, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: T. E. Chapman, 1853), pp. 5-7, 24-6, 46-8.14. Henry Bergh, “The Cost of Cruelty”, The North American Review 133, no. 296 (July 1881): 75–81.15. George T. Angell, “Lessons on Kindness to Animal”, from The Primary Teacher 5, no. 1-10 (September 1881-June 1882): 24-26, 64-65, 108-109, 145-146, 188-189, 226-228, 264-266, 307-308, 345-346, 382-383.16. Henry Childs Merwin, “The Ethics of Horse-Keeping”, The Atlantic Monthly 67 (May 1891): 631–39.17. Vivisection: Perspectives on a Controversial Practice (1884-1912)17.1 Albert Leffingwell, “Vivisection”, Lippincott’s Magazine 34 (August 1884): 126–132.17.2 Henry Pickering Bowditch, “The Advancement of Medicine by Research” Science 4, no. 82 (July 24, 1896): 85-8, 91-7, 99–101.17.3 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, “Is Vivisection a Peculiar Institution?”, Journal of Zoöphily 18, no. 10 (October 1909): 108–110.17.4 William Williams Keen, “The Influence of Antivivisection on Character”, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 166, no. 18 & 19 (May 2 & 9, 1912): 651–58, 687–94.18. John Harvey Kellogg, “The Ethics of Diet”, from Shall We Slay to Eat? (Battle Creek: Good Health Pub. Co., 1899), pp. 124-38, 141-47, 156-6219. John Howard Moore, “The Ethical Kinship”, from The Universal Kinship (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906), pp. 245-52, 272-82, 291- , 314-2420. Charles Loomis Dana, “The Zoophil-Psychosis: A Modern Malady,” Medical Record 75, no. 10 (March 6, 1909): 381–83.21. Francis Harold Rowley, extract from Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces (Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1913, pp. 1-18, 23-2722. Marie L.Darrach, “Dogs Have a Soul – and Now They Have a Church.” Duluth News Tribune [Duluth, MN], May 15, 1921, 49.IndexVolume 3: Domesticated and Companion Animals (Part 1)General IntroductionVolume 3 IntroductionPart 1. Agrarian Labor and Production1. Samuel Deane, [Keeping and Caring for Farm Animals], The New-England Farmer; or Georgical Dictionary (Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1790), pp. 42-4, 111-12, 132-35, 154-55, 167, 275-77.2. James Mease, “Observations on Sheep.” Archives of Useful Knowledge 1, no. 1 (July 1810): 66-70, 106-11, 115-18.3. Enslaved People and Domesticated Animals (1837-1855)3.1 Charles Ball, [Canine Friends and Canine Foes], Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball (New York: J. S. Taylor, 1837), pp. 354-56, 387-92, 408-133.2 Anon., [James Smith and His Dog Escape from a Georgia Plantation]. “The Lost Is Found”, Voice of the Fugitive 2, no. 6, 9, 14 (March 11, April 22, June 17, 1852): n. p.3.3 Frederick Douglass, [Working with a Pair of Unbroken Oxen], My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), p. 208-144. Richard Lamb Allen, “The Ass, the Mule, and the Comparative Labor of Working Animals”, A Brief Compend of American Agriculture (New York: Saxton and Miles, 1846), pp. 398-409.5. Educating Animal Workers (1843-1858)5.1 W. Bacon, “Training Domestic Animals” The Cultivator 4, no. 4 (April 1847): 122–23.5.2 Anon., “Education of Animals” The Cultivator 9, no. 12 (December 1852): 394–95.5.3 Anon., “How Mr. Rarey Tames Horses” Harper’s Weekly 2, no. 84 (August 7, 1858): 508–10.6. John L. Blake, “The Poultry Yard”, The Farm and the Fireside: Or, the Romance of Agriculture. (Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1852), pp. 19-35.7. Lewis F. Allen, [How to Succeed in Cattle Breeding], American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management (New York: O. Judd and Company, 1868), pp. 187-2078. James Law, “A Plea for Veterinary Surgery” American Veterinary Review 2 (July 1878): pp. 158–75.9. Mary L. Taylor, “A Woman’s Success and Experience”, Keeping One Cow: Being the Experience of a Number of Practical Writers, in a Clear and Condensed Form, Upon the Management of a Single Milch Cow (New York: Orange Judd Company, 1880), pp. 119–22.10. Cowboys, Horses and Cattle Trails (1886-1939)10.1 John Baumann, “Experiences of a Cow-Boy” Lippincott’s Magazine 38 (September 1886): pp. 308–20.10.2 Henry F. Cope, “Sheep-Herder vs. Cow-Puncher.” The World Today 7, no. 2 (August 1904): pp. 1037–45.10.3 ‘Ben Kinchlow: Range Lore and Negro Cowboy Reminiscences before and after 1875’, U.S. Work Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project: Folklore Project, Life Histories, 1936-39.11. Nathaniel S. Shaler, ‘Domesticated Birds’, Domesticated Animals: Their Relation to Man and to His Advancement in Civilization (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1895), pp. 152-59, 162-67, 176-7, 179-80, 187-89.12. Buying and Selling Equine Workers (1897-1913)12.1 Alexander Joseph Burkholder, “The Examination of Horses for Soundness” American Veterinary Review 20 (March 1897): pp. 834-37.12.2 Alexander Septimus Alexander, “Secret Tricks in Horse Trading” From Horse Secrets (Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co., 1909), p. 18-20, 22, 24-6, 28-3112.3 Oscar Micheaux, “Dealin’ in Mules” From The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (Lincoln: Woodruff Press, 1913), pp. 79-85.13. Eugene Davenport, The Market Classes of Horses, University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 62. Urbana: University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, February 1901, pp. 17-27.14. Alexander Hannum and M. L. Osborne, “Belgian Hares for Pleasure and Profit” The Colored American Magazine 2, no. 6 (April 1901): pp. 414–19.15. Mary H. Austin, “The Sheep-Dog” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 113, no. 677 (October 1906): pp. 757–61.16. Chester E. Faris, “The Indian as a Wool Grower” The National Wool Grower 15, no. 11 (November 1925): pp. 23–25.Part 2. Travel and Transportation17. Lansford W. Hastings, “The Equipment, Supplies, and the Method of Traveling”, The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1845), pp. 143-49.18. John R. Forsyth, [Animal Suffering on the Overland Trails], “Journal of a Trip from Peoria, Ill. to California on the Pacific” 1849, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.19. William B. Lorton, [The Dangers of the Stampede], “California Journal” (1849), William B. Lorton, Diaries and Papers, September 1848–January 1850, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.20. Henry W. Herbert , “Riding, Driving, and Road Management”, Frank Forester’s Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America, vol. 2. )New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1857), pp. 446-54.21. Anon., “How Horses Are Hired” Brooklyn Daily Eagle [Brooklyn, NY], June 19, 1873, p. 4.22. Samuel J. Barrows, “The Northwestern Mule and His Driver” The Atlantic Monthly 35, no. 211 (May 1875): pp. 550–59.23. Edward S. Farrow, “Pack Mules and Packing” Mountain Scouting: A Handbook for Officers and Soldiers on the Frontiers (New York: E. S. Farrow, 1881), pp. 111-29.24. Richard I. Dodge, [The Indian Pony], Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years’ Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co., 1882), pp. 584-89, 592-95.25. Horses and the Urban Railway System (1884-1891)25. 1 Committee on Stables and Care of Horses, “Stables and Care of Horses” The Street Railway Journal 1, no. 1 (November 1884): 3–5.25. 2 Anon., “Street Car Horses” The Street Railway Journal 1, no. 7 (May 1885): 145.25. 3 James A. Waugh, “Electrical Accidents to Domestic Animals” American Veterinary Review 15 (December 1891): 507–9.26. Frank Swales, [What Makes a Good Coachman], Driving as I Found It (New York: Eclipse Publishing Co., 1891), pp. 17-29.27. Berkeley R. Davids, [Legal Rulings and Regulations Concerning Horses and Automobiles] The Law of Motor Vehicles (Northport, Long Island: Edward Thompson Co., 1911), pp. 103-37.28. Townsend W. Thorndike, “Indian Sled Dogs of North America” Recreation 34, no. 2 (February 1911): pp. 74-77, 101-102.Part 3. Entertainment and Competitions29. Cadwallader R. Colden, “The Great Match Race between Eclipse and Sir Henry—Minutely Described by an Old Turfman” American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine 2, no. 1 (September 1830): 3-11.30. Anon., “Rules of the Saratoga Association, to Govern All Trials of Speed of Thoroughbreds over Their Grounds, at Saratoga, N.Y.” Rules and Regulations for the Government of Racing, Trotting and Betting (New York: M. B. Brown & Co., 1866), pp. 28–37.31. Cockfighting Coverage in the New York Herald (1868)31.1 Anon., “Cock Fighting Extraordinary. Long Island Vs. New York – Main of Seven for $600 and $50 on Each Battle” New York Herald, January 22, 1868, 5.31. 2 Anon., “Cock Fighting. Return Main of Five in the Great Match between New York and Long Island – $500 the Main and $50 Each Battle” New York Herald, January 29, 1868, 5.31. 3 Anon., “Cock Fighting. Termination of an Unparalleled Encounter – New York at Last Victorious – Prolonged and Spirited Fighting” New York Herald, January 30, 1868, 6.32. Anon., “Kit Burn’s Dog Pit Gone.” The Sun [New York City, NY], February 7, 1870, 3.33. Charles Stewart, “My Life as a Slave, ed. Annie Porter, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 69, no. 413 (October 1884): 730-38.34. Bernard Waters, [Training Dogs for Field Trial Competitions], Modern Training and Handling (Boston: J. L. Thayer Publishing Co., 1894), pp. 160-66, 257-61, 263-64.35. Pigeon Racing and Pigeon Fancying: Articles from Country Life (1904-1905)35. 1 F. H. S. Morrison, “The Exciting Sport of Pigeon-Racing.” Country Life in America 7, no. 1 (November 1904): pp. 37–40.35. 2 ––––, “The Care of Racing-Pigeons.” Country Life in America 7, no. 1 (November 1904): p. 83.35. 3 Alfred Henry Goodwin, “The Strange Art of Pigeon Fancying.” Country Life in America 7, no. 6 (April 1905): pp. 611–14.35. 4 ––––, “The Abnormal Fancy Pigeon.” Country Life in America 7, no. 6 (April 1905): pp. 647-49.36. Charles E. Trevathan, “Luck and the Race Track” New-York Tribune, June 16, 1907, 7-8.37. Williams Haynes, “Dog Shows and Showing” Outing 59, no. 3 (December 1911): 372-375.38. Esther B. Darling, [Adventures of a Sled-Racing Dog], Baldy of Nome: An Immortal of the Trail (San Francisco: A. M. Roberston, 1913), pp. 39-44, 47-69.39. Monroe Woolley, “‘Breaking’ the Outlaw” Outdoor World & Recreation 49, no. 6 (December 1913): 313–17.IndexVolume 4: Domesticated and Companion Animals (Part 2)General IntroductionVolume 4 IntroductionPart 1. Pet Culture1. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “The Sentiment of Petship”, Godey’s Lady’s Book 28, no. 5 (May 1844): pp. 216–18.2. Arthur M. Edwards, [The Freshwater Aquarium and Its Inhabitants], from Life Beneath the Waters, or, the Aquarium in America (New York: H. Baillière, 1858), pp. 39-45, 63-4, 71-3, 85-90.3. Theodore H. Hittell, [Educating Bears], from Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California (San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860), pp. 27-34, 36, 66-72, 112-15.4. Robert Ridgway, “A True Story of a Pet Bird”, The American Naturalist 3, no. 6 (August 1869): 309–12.5. Josephine Clifford, “Something About My Pets”, The Overland Monthly 6, no. 1 (January 1871): 58–67.6. Junius Henri Browne, “Cynolatry”, Appletons’ Journal 15, no. 372 (May 6, 1876): 597–98.7. Cold-Blooded Companions: Articles on Amphibian and Reptilian Pets (1885-1909)7.1 H. G. C., “Bullfrogs as Household Pets”, The New York Times [New York City, NY], July 5, 1885, p.10.7.2 [Anon.], “Horned Toads as Pets”, The Morning Call [San Francisco, CA], May 4, 1890, p. 9.7.3 [Anon.], “Mr. Jewell’s Frogs”, The Hartford Courant [Hartford, CT], September 1, 1892, p. 3.7.4 [Anon.], “Snakes Are His Pets. Washington Man Tells How He Handles Reptiles”, The Washington Post [Washington, D.C.], September 8, 1902, p. 11.7.5 Elizabeth Elliot, “The Pet Alligator.” The Rock Island Argus [Rock Island, IL], May 1, 1909, p. 88. Henry Bishop, “Advice to his Patrons and Bird Fanciers Generally, on the Care of Canaries, Finches, Cardinals, Parrots and Soft Bill Birds”, from Bishop, the Bird Man’s Book, on the Care and Management of Birds, Aquariums, Your Home and Yourself (Baltimore: Bishop, the Bird Man, 1886), pp. 5-18, 22-4.9. Harriet M. Miller, Articles on Cage Birds from Harper’s Bazaar (1892)9.1 Harriet Mann Miller [as “Olive Thorne Miller”], “Bird-Lore. I.–Is It Cruel to Keep Birds?”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 9 (February 27, 1892): p. 170.9.2 ––––, “Bird-Lore. III.–To Get a Bird Home”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 11 (March 12, 1892): p. 206.9.3 ––––, “Bird-Lore. IV.–To Tame a Bird”, Harper’s Bazaar 25, no. 12 (March 19, 1892): p. 226-27.10. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, from Harper’s Round Table (1896)10. 1 James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, Harper’s Round Table 17, no. 871 (July 7, 1896): 872-873.10. 2 ––––, “Queer Pets of Sailor Jack”, Harper’s Round Table 17, no. 872 (July 14, 1896): 896-898.11. Children and Pets: Commentary on a Human-Animal Relationship (1901-1919)11. 1 [Anon.], “Children and Their Pets”, Prescott Morning Courier [Prescott, AZ], July 27, 1901, p. 2.11.2 Kate Upson Clark, “Helping to Refine the Boy”, Los Angeles Times [Los Angeles, CA], August 24, 1903, p. 13.11.3 [Anon.], “Pets That Teach Children”, The Washington Post, October 10, 1909, M7.11.4 Rene Stillman, “Develop Child Character Through Pets”, Philadelphia Inquirer [Philadelphia, PA], July 11, 1919, p. 11.12. George E. McColm, “The Wolf as Pet”, Outdoor Life 14, no. 2 (August 1904): 486–88.13. Pet Boarding Homes and Hospitals: Articles in the New York Times (1904-1905)13. 1 [Anon.], “A Summer Hotel for Pet Birds”, The New York Times, June 12, 1904, p. 6.13. 2 M. A. T., “At a Sanitarium of the Canine and Feline ‘Smart Set’”, The New York Times, July 2, 1905, SM6.14. Sarah Comstock, “The Training of Domestic Animals”, Good Housekeeping 41, no. 1 (July 1905): pp. 42–46.15. [Anon.], “Fishes’ Faces”, The Atlantic Monthly 102, no. 1 (July 1908): pp. 142–43.16. Henry C. Merwin, “Dogs and Men”, The Atlantic Monthly 105, no. 393 (January 1910): pp. 10–18.17. Charlotte P. Gilman, “On Dogs,” The Forerunner (1911)17. 1 Charlotte P. Gilman, “On Dogs”, The Forerunner 2, no. 7 (July 1911): pp. 180–82.17. 2 ––––, “On Dogs”, The Forerunner 2, no. 8 (August 1911): pp. 206–9.18. Agnes Repplier, “The Grocer’s Cat”, from Americans and Others (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912), pp. 273-81, 284-98.19. Edward Howe Forbush, “What Are We Going to Do About the Cat? With Over 31 Million Birds Killed by Cats Each Year Something Must Be Done—But What?”, The Ladies’ Home Journal 34, no. 3 (March 1917): p. 12.Part 2. Urbanization and City Life20. Robert Milham Hartley, [Exposing the “Swill Milk” Scandal], from An Historical, Scientific, and Practical Essay on Milk, as an Article of Human Sustenance; with a Consideration of the Effects Consequent Upon the Present Unnatural Methods of Producing It for the Supply of Large Cities (New York: J. Leavitt, 1842), pp. 107-13, 132-37, 140-4321. [Anon.], “Beef Packing in Chicago by Wadsworth, Dyer & Co”, Prairie Farmer 8, no. 11 (November 1848): pp. 336–37.22. The Manhattan “Piggery War”: Articles from The New York Herald (1859)22.1 [Anon.], “Private Piggeries and Public Health”, The New York Herald [New York City, NY], August 6, 1859, p. 4.22. 2 [Anon.], “The War on the Pigs, Piggeries and Bone Boiling Establishments” The New York Herald, August 9, 1859, p. 4.22.3 [Anon.], “The War in the Piggeries. The City Inspector Asks for Aid. Nine Thousand Hogs Driven Out. Horrible Description of the Up Town Wards”, The New York Herald, September 20, 1859, p. 4.23. Charles Dawson Shanly, “New York Dogs”, The Atlantic Monthly 29, no. 175 (May 1872): pp. 550–59.24. Caroline E. White, “The City Pound or Dog Shelter of Philadelphia”, Our Dumb Animals 13, no. 10 (March 1881): pp. 74–75.25. Mad Dogs and Urban Panic: The New York Times on “Hydrophobia” (1885-1893)25.1 [Anon.], “A Mad Fight with a Mad Dog”, The New York Times, April 17, 1885, p. 1.25.2 [Anon.], “The Mad Dog Scare”, The New York Times, December 24, 1885, p. 4.25.3 Dinah Sharpe, “When Dogs Become Mad. Lack of Sufficient Pure Water Often the Cause”, The New York Times, July 5, 1891, p. 17.25.4 [Anon.], “Bitten by a Mad Cat. The Victims to Come to the Pasteur Institute in This City”, The New York Times, December 16, 1891, p. 10.25.5 [Anon.], “A Small Dog’s Sad End. They Said He Was Mad and Put Him to Death Cruelly”, The New York Times, February 8, 1893, p. 8.25. 6 “Medicus”, “How to Treat Mad Dogs”, The New York Times, June 19, 1893, p. 11.26. H. C. Clark, “Meat Industries of the United States”, from Fourth and Fifth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Years 1887 and 1888, 359–78 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889), pp. 359-68.27. Rufus M. Steele, “Killing an Army of Horses to Rebuild San Francisco”, Harper’s Weekly 51 (April 20, 1907): pp. 580–81.28. Alfred M. Downes, Fire Fighters and Their Pets (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907), pp. 2-6, 11-14, 95-106, 120-28, 143-44, 147-55.29. Paul P. Foster, “Helping the Work Horses”, Outing 53, no. 2 (November 1908): pp. 168–79.30. [Anon.], “New York’s Police Dogs and What They Can Do”, The New York Times, January 19, 1908, SM7.31. Edwin Emerson, “Making Policemen of Horses”, Harper’s Weekly 53 (January 30, 1909): pp. 27–8.32. Edwin T. Brewster, “A City of 4,000,000 Cats”, McClure’s Magazine 39 (May 1912): pp. 54–64.33. William F. Morse, “The Humane and Sanitary Disposal of Superfluous Animal Life”, American Journal of Public Health 3, no. 11 (1913): 1226–34.34. Alice J. Cleator, “The Cats of Uncle Sam”, Our Dumb Animals 51, no. 10 (March 1919): pp. 156–57.IndexVolume 5: Wild AnimalsGeneral IntroductionVolume 5 IntroductionPart 1. Hunting1. John James Audubon, “Scipio and the Bear”, from Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, Vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831), pp. 479-822. Francis Allyn Olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1841), pp. 56-8, 61-7, 79-80, 113-15, 155-59, 181-84.3. J. Ross Browne, “The Coast Rangers: A Chronicle of Events in California”, Harper’s Magazine 23, no. 137 (October 1861): pp. 598, 602-6.4. William E. Webb, [Two Methods of Bison Hunting], from Buffalo Land: An Authentic Narrative of the Adventures and Misadventures of a Late Scientific and Sporting Party Upon the Great Plains of the West (Cincinnati: E. Hannaford & Co., 1872), pp. 252-63, 281-87.5. Is the Freedman a “Game Destroyer”? Letters to the Editor of Forest and Stream (1882-1883)5.1 M., “Quail in Virginia”, Forest and Stream 19, no. 21 (December 21, 1882): p. 4095.2 M. & N.A.T., “The Freedman and the Quail”, Forest and Stream 20, no. 5 (March 1, 1883): pp. 87–8.5.3 “Rallywood,” “The Negroes and the Birds”, Forest and Stream 20, no. 1 (February 1, 1883): pp. 7-8.6. J. M. T., “Chasing Antelopes.” The Philadelphia Times [Philadelphia, PA], October 31, 1886, 12.7. Kirk Munroe, “Alligator Hunting with Seminoles”, Cosmopolitan Magazine 13, no. 5 (September 1892): pp. 576–81.8. C. B. Sedgwick, “Coyote Hunting for Scalps”, The Overland Monthly 19, no. 110 (February 1892): pp. 192–95.9. Theodore Sherman Palmer, “Extermination of Noxious Animals by Bounties”, from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1896 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897), pp. 55-9, 62-6.10. Paulina Brandreth, “Hints on Deer Shooting”, Forest and Stream 63, no. 14 (October 1, 1904): pp. 281–83.11. Robert White Williams, “The Game Warden of To-Day”, from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907), pp. 213-19, 222.12. William Temple Hornaday, [On the “Army of Destruction”], from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1913), pp. 53-4, 56-66, 69-71, 99-01, 105-09, 113, 203-06.13. Aldo Leopold, “Wild Lifers vs. Game Farmers: A Plea for Democracy in Sport”, Bulletin of the American Game Protective Association 8, no. 2 (April 1919): pp. 6–7.14. Dixon L. Merritt, “World’s Greatest Animal Criminal Dead”, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1921)Part 2. Forms and Institutions of Display15. Charles Willson Peale and Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois, A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel H. Smith, 1796), pp. iv-viii, 1-4, 6-7, 11-14, 22, 26-9, 35, 42-4.16. [Anon.], “Menagerie”, The New-York Mirror [New York City, NY], January 26, 1833, p. 239.17. S. G., “Visit of the Pupils of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb to the Menagerie”, Youth’s Cabinet 6, no. 12 (June 15, 1843): pp. 91–2.18. [Anon.], “Conquering an Elephant”, Spirit of the Times 18, no. 1 (February 26, 1848): pp. 4–5.19. [Anon.], [Performing Monkeys], from Haney’s Art of Training Animals: A Practical Guide for Amateur or Professional Trainers (New York: J. Haney, 1869), pp. 157-64.20. Mary Dartt, [The Taxidermy of Martha Maxwell], from On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1879), pp. 5-16, 23-7, 29-30, 32-4, 112-13, 117-19, 121-22, 132-33.21. Phineas Taylor Barnum, [Barnum and His Elephants], from Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Sixty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum (Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1889), pp. 330-33, 338-39, 344-45.22. Ernest Jarrold, “A Ring-Tail Monkey”, The Brooklyn Citizen [Brooklyn, NY], June 9, 1889, p. 11.23. William Cameron Coup, “The Perilous Business of Stocking a Menagerie”, from Sawdust and Spangles: Stories and Secrets of the Circus (Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co., 1901), pp. 18-24. John W. Smith, “Central Park Animals as Their Keeper Knows Them”, Outing 42, no. 2 (May 1903): pp. 248–5425. Leonidas Hubbard, “What a Big Zoo Means to the People”, Outing 44, no. 6 (September 1904): pp. 671-78.26. Anna B. Gallup, “‘Plato’ Our Spider Monkey”, The Museum News 5, no. 4 (January 1910): pp. 55–7.27. George Conklin, “I Become a Lion Trainer”, from The Ways of the Circus: Being the Memories and Adventures of George Conklin, Tamer of Lions (New York: Harper, 1921), pp. 33-56Part 3. Facing Extinction28. Robert Annan, “Account of a Skeleton of a Large Animal, Found Near Hudson’s River”, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2, no. 1 (1793): pp. 160–64.29. Benjamin Smith Barton, [Letter and Notes on the American Mastodon], from Archaeologiae Americanae Telluris Collectanea Et Specimina: Or, Collections, with Specimens, for a Series of Memoirs on Certain Extinct Animals and Vegetables of North-America (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1814), pp. 9-10, 13-19, 46-9, 52-330. Nathan Guilford, “Traditions of the Mammoth”, from James Hall (ed.), The Western Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for 1829, (Cincinnati: N. and G. Guilford, 1828), pp. 19-32.31. George P. Marsh, [On Human Destructiveness], from Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (New York: C. Scribner, 1864), pp. 35-44.32. Joel A. Allen, “The Extirpation of the Larger Indigenous Mammals of the United States”, The Penn Monthly 7 (October 1876): pp. 794–805.33. William F. Cody, “The Last of the Buffalo: By Buffalo Bill. Who Has Slain Them by Tens of Thousands?”, New York Journal [New York City, NY], May 16, 1897, p. 28.34. Robert C. Auld, “A Means of Preserving the Purity and Establishing a Career for the American Bison of the Future”, The American Naturalist 24, no. 285 (September 1890): pp. 787–96.35. [Anon.], “‘Buffalo’ Jones’ Herd”, The Daily Inter Ocean [Chicago, IL], January 20, 1891, p. 9.36. Simon Pokagon, “The Wild Pigeon of North America”, The Chautauquan 22, no. 20 (November 1895): pp. 202–6.37. William T. Hornaday, “The Founding of the Wichita National Bison Herd”, Annual Report of the American Bison Society, 1905-1907 (New York: American Bison Society, 1908), pp. 55-38. Clifton F. Hodge, [Articles on the Passenger Pigeon Investigation], Nature-Study Review and The Auk (1910-1912)38.1 Clifton F. Hodge, “Passenger Pigeon Investigation”, Nature-Study Review 6, no. 5 (May1910): pp. 110–11.38.2 ––––, “The Passenger Pigeon Investigation”, The Auk 28, no. 1 (1911): pp. 49–53.38.3 ––––, “A Last Word on the Passenger Pigeon”, The Auk 29, no. 2 (1912): pp. 169–75.39. Walter L. Hahn, “The Future of the North American Fauna”, Popular Science Monthly 83 (August 1913): pp. 169–77.Index