The the golden age of fossils in America Thomson, Keith Stewart. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ctu New Haven Yale University Press c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xvii, 386 p. 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. Keith Thomson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n------ s------ n-us--- 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 QE882.P8 T46 2008eb 560.973/09033 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579352 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579352 CaPaEBR 070910 ebr10579352