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Item Information       Choice Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Thomson, Keith Stewart.       by title:      The legacy of the Ma...       by call number:      560.973 T483L     Search the Web     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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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