Charles Jesse Jones (1844-1919)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Easton, Robert, Brown, Mackenzie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; Animal reproduction; Biographies; History; Jones; Charles Jesse; 1844-1919; Muskoxen; North American bison; Parks; Wildlife management; Starvation; Great Slave Lake region; N.W.T; Manitoba; Yellowstone National Park; Wyoming; Bering Sea; Fort Smith; Great Slave Lake; Mackenzie River; Theodore; Warden; Yukon; Arctic; Mackenzie river; muskox; Slave River
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65241

On 12 June 1879, 53-year-old Charles Jesse ("Buffalo)" Jones left Garden City, Kansas, for the Far North to what nobody had done: capture a muskox and bring it back alive to "civilization". Jones was already internationally famous as "The Savior of the American Bison"....