A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction /
Passenger pigeon's flight to extinction
Joel Greenberg.
- First U.S. edition.
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury, c2014.
- xiii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Life of the wanderer -- My blood shall be your blood : indians and passenger pigeons -- A legacy of awe -- Pigeons as provisions to pigeons as products -- Means of destruction -- Profiles in killing -- The tempest was spent : the last great nestings -- Flights to the finish -- Martha and her kin : the captive flocks -- Extinction and beyond -- A passenger pigeon miscellany.