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Author Jasinski, Laurie E.

Title Dinosaur highway : a history of Dinosaur Valley State Park / Laurie E. Jasinski.

Publication Info. Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Chisholm Trail Series
Chisholm Trail series.
Note OldControl:muse9780875654737.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-200) and index.
Summary Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth's Cretaceous layer. It wouldn't be until a summer day in1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these stony traces of an ancient past. Young Adams's first discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River Valley, near the small community of Glen Rose, Texas, came more than one hundred million years after the rei.
Contents Introduction; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE The Changing Face of North Central Texas; CHAPTER TWO Fountains of Youth: Settlement in the Valley of the Paluxy; CHAPTER THREE Making Tracks: Moonshiners, Model Ts, and the Lime Mud Strider; CHAPTER FOUR Work and Play on Paluxy "Creek"; CHAPTER FIVE The Dinosaur Hunter and the Texas Village; CHAPTER SIX In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs; CHAPTER SEVEN The Fight for Dinosaur Valley; CHAPTER EIGHT To Capture a Park-Landscape and Riverscape and Trailway; CHAPTER NINE Growing Pains for Dinosaur Valley State Park.
CHAPTER TEN Maintaining the Dinosaur HighwayThe Dinosaur Waltz; Notes and Other Trackways; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Dinosaur Valley State Park (Tex.) -- Biography.
Dinosaur Valley State Park (Tex.) -- History.
Natural history -- Texas -- Dinosaur Valley State Park.
Natural history.
Texas -- Dinosaur Valley State Park.
Indexed Term "Multi-User"
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Jasinski, Laurie E. Dinosaur highway. Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008003137
ISBN 0875654738
9780875653754 (alkaline paper)
0875653758 (alkaline paper)
9780875654737 (electronic book)