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050 00 $aQE882.P8$bT46 2008
082 00 $a560.973/09033$222
100 1 $aThomson, Keith Stewart.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012245
245 14 $aThe legacy of the Mastodon :$bthe golden age of fossils in America /$cKeith Thomson.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tThe Jeffersonians -- $g1.$tFossil Hunters on the Frontier -- $g2.$tBig Bone Lick -- $g3.$tFranklin, Jefferson, and the Incognitum -- $g4.$tJefferson's "Great-Claw" and a World About to Change -- $g5.$tThe First American Dinosaurs: An Eighteenth-Century Mystery Story -- $g6.$tFossils and Show Business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- $gPt. 2.$tFossils and Geology -- $g7.$tFossils and Extinction: Dangerous Ideas -- $g8.$tMary Anning's World -- $g9.$tAn American Natural Science -- $g10.$tAn American Geology -- $g11.$tBad Lands: No Time for Ideas -- $g12.$tDr. Leidy's Dinosaur -- $g13.$tFerdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- $gPt. 3.$tGiant Saurians and Horned Mammals -- $g14.$tKansas and a New Regime -- $g15.$tEntry of the Gladiators -- $g16.$tRiding the Rails -- $g17.$tThe First Yale College Expedition -- $g18.$tThe Competition Begins -- $g19.$tBuffalo Land: Who Was Professor Paleozoic? -- $g20.$t1872: The Year of Conflict -- $g21.$tThe Case of the Great Horned Mammals -- $g22.$tGoing Separate Ways -- $g23.$tTwo into Four Won't Go -- $g24.$tTo the Black Hills -- $g25.$tTo the Judith River -- $gPt. 4.$tToward the Twentieth Century -- $g26.$tThe Rise of Dinosaurs -- $g27.$tThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- $g28.$tGoing Public -- $g29.$t1890: The End of the Beginning -- $tThe Geological Column -- $tLeidy on Evolution -- $tCope on Evolution.
520 1 $a"The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up, and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs. This exciting book tells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890." "The volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the American mastodon led him to champion the study of fossil vertebrates. The book continues with vivid descriptions of the actual work of prospecting for fossils - a pick in one hand, a rifle in the other - and enthralling portraits of Joseph Leidy, Ferdinand Hayden, Edward Cope, and Othniel Marsh, among other major figures in the development of the science of paleontology."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMastodons$zNorth America.
650 0 $aMammoths$zNorth America.
650 0 $aMammals, Fossil$zNorth America.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zNorth America.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108850
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
852 00 $bglx$hQE882.P8$iT46 2008