Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 139: "William Temple Hornaday, And His Taxidermy-Driven Bison Activism"
This is the bonus show for Episode 139! (Taxidermy)
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, Christian Weatherford, and Ellen Weatherford explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of one guy who worked so hard to taxidermy so many animals, he accidentally helped save the American bison.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking At People Looking At Animals In America by Jon Mooallem
William Temple Hornaday: Saving the American Bison (Smithsonian Institution Archives)
‘Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone’ (The Atlantic)
Wildlife Conservation Society: Our Work: Bison
Philadelphia Zoological Gardens (Encyclopedia Britannica)
The man who was caged in a zoo (The Guardian)
YouTube upload of The Simpsons scene where Homer Simpson visits cursed objects store
1 Way To Make An Emoji (the bison emoji podcast) -- this is Alex's podcast miniseries about proposing the bison emoji, featuring guest Katie Goldin.
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