I'm John Bachelor with Professor Dan Flores.

The book is Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America.

The man's name is Sir William Drummond Stewart.

He began a safari, a luxurious safari in the West, middle of the 19th century, and what results from it

is a massacre of animals, not only in excess of what you need to eat, but really what it looks

like is a serial killing, a mass massacre that has no justification in human history. The reason I mention

him is that he's not alone, but you go on to detail, and I'm not going to read how much he took.

He becomes a model for the other adventures who come in the latter part of the century when the

railroad makes it available to reach Montana

or to reach Colorado.

Was there any chastising of Stewart when they read about him back east or when they read

about him in Europe?

Anybody say, why are you doing this?

I don't find any evidence that anyone confronted William Drummond Stewart or St. George

Gore or any of the other, usually nobleman from Ireland or Great Britain, who regarded

the American West, particularly the Great Plains part of the American West,

which was our analog of the Serengeti or the Maas, Mara, as this destination to sheet animals.

I don't find that anyone other than an occasional cartoonist in a newspaper ever really

castigates these people for doing this.

It's the same thing they're doing in Africa, of course, during the same period of time.

It's the beginning of what we call the safari.

The safari is a Swahili word.

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