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Scope and Contents Where the majority of Hornaday’s scrapbooks focus on a single subject among his wildlife campaigns (volume 1 on the creation of the Elk River preserve, for instance, or volume 2 on the founding of the national bison herds), volume 3 covers several events, between 1911 and 1928, with which Hornaday was involved.Prominent among them is the 1911 passage of the Bayne Bill in New York State. Named for Senator Howard R. Bayne of Staten Island, who drew up the bill based on Hornaday’s...

Scope and Contents Volume 8 documents Hornaday’s campaign against the Louisiana Gulf Coast Club, a private hunting club developed by Edward Avery McIlhenny. By the time he proposed the Club in 1922, McIlhenny (son of Tabasco sauce inventor Edmund McIlhenny) was considered a conservation hero by many. He founded the Bird City wildlife refuge, credited with restoring the snowy egret population, which had fallen to alarmingly low levels by the 1890s. In 1911, with Charles Willis Ward, he created the 13,000-acre...