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Thomson, Keith Stewart.
Subjects
Mastodons -- North America.
Mammoths -- North America.
Mammals, Fossil -- North America.
Paleontology -- North America.
Paleontology -- United States -- History.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Thomson, Keith Stewart.
Mastodons -- North America.
Mammoths -- North America.
Mammals, Fossil -- North America.
Paleontology -- North America.
Paleontology -- United States -- History.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
MARC Display
The
legacy
of the
Mastodon
: the
golden
age
of
fossils
in
America
/ Keith Thomson.
by
Thomson, Keith Stewart.
Yale University Press, c2008.
Call #:
560.973 T483L
Subjects
Mastodons -- North
America
.
Mammoths -- North
America
.
Mammals, Fossil -- North
America
.
Paleontology -- North
America
.
Paleontology -- United States -- History.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780300117042 (alk. paper)
0300117043 (alk. paper)
9780300151299 (pbk.)
Description:
xvii, 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.
Contents:
Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story --
Fossils
and show business: Mr. Peale's
Mastodon
-- Pt. two:
Fossils
and geology --
Fossils
and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: the year of conflict -- The case of the great horned mammals -- Going separate ways -- Two into four won't go -- To the Black Hills -- To the Judith River -- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century -- The rise of dinosaurs -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Going public -- 1890: the end of the beginning -- Appendixes -- The geological column -- Leidy on evolution -- Cope on evolution.
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