Introduction

My Boyhood Among the Pigeons

The Passenger Pigeon - from American Ornithology by Alexander Wilson

The Passenger Pigeon - from Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon

As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It

The Wild Pigeon of North America - by Chief Pokagon in The Chautauquan

The Passenger Pigeon - from Life Histories of N. American Birds by Charles Bendire

Netting the Pigeons - by William Brewster in The Auk

Efforts to Check the Slaughter by Prof. H. B. Roney

The Pigeon Butcher's Defense - by E. T. Martin in American Field

Notes of a Vanished Industry

Recollections of Old Timers

The Last of the Pigeons

What Became of the Wild Pigeon? by Sullivan Cook in Field and Stream

A Novel Theory of Extinction by C.H. Ames and Robert Ridgway

News From John Burroughs

The Pigeon in Manitoba - by George E. Atkinson

The Passenger Pigeon in Confinement - by Ruthven Deane in The Auk

Nesting Habits of The Passenger Pigeon - by Dr. Morris Gibbs in The Oologist

Miscellaneous Notes