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001 2007037329
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008 070910s2008 ctuabf b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aQE882.P8$bT46 2008
082 00 $a560.973/09033$222
100 1 $aThomson, Keith Stewart.
245 14 $aThe legacy of the Mastodon :$bthe golden age of fossils in America /$cKeith Thomson.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axvii, 386 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 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.
650 0 $aMastodons$zNorth America.
650 0 $aMammoths$zNorth America.
650 0 $aMammals, Fossil$zNorth America.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zNorth America.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037329-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037329-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007037329.html