Mr. Hornaday’s War

When he appears in history, William Temple Hornaday almost always shows up in sentences that include names like Teddy Roosevelt or Gifford Pinchot. Despite the impressive rhythms of his name, Hornaday belongs there not by birth—he was an Iowa farm boy orphaned at 14—but because of the battles he waged with aristocrats on behalf of conservation and wildlife, and because he joined them as writers of memorable books.  Hornaday’s most famous today is 1889’s The Extermination of the Ameri