Contents

Preface

1. Life of the Wanderer

2. My Blood Shall Be Your Blood: Indians and Passenger Pigeons

3. A Legacy of Awe

4. Pigeons as Provisions to Pigeons as Products

5. Means of Destruction

6. Profiles in Killing

7. The Tempest Was Spent: The Last Great Nestings

8. Flights to the Finish

9. Martha and Her Kin: The Captive Flocks

10. Extinction and Beyond

Acknowledgments

Appendix: A Passenger Pigeon Miscellany

Notes

Bibliography

Plates Section

A Note on the Author

By the Same Author