Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Bones of contention: the American incognitum and the discovery of extinction
Paradise lost: unraveling the mysteries of insular species
Sounding the alarm about continent-wide wildlife extinction
Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save the bison
Going global: the American committee and the first inventory of extinction
The Latin American turn: nature protection in the Western Hemisphere
Enter ecology: preserving nature's living laboratory
Reconsidering raptors during the interwar years
Salvation through science?: the first life-history studies of endangered species
"The nation's first responsibility": saving endangered species in the age of ecology.