Bibliograph

The legacy of the Mastodon, the golden age of fossils in America, Keith Thomson

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The legacy of the Mastodon, the golden age of fossils in America, Keith Thomson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The legacy of the Mastodon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

171049906

Responsibility statement

Keith Thomson

Sub title

the golden age of fossils in America

Table Of 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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