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Author Hedeen, Stanley.

Title Big Bone Lick : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.

Publication Info. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-174) and index.
Contents Geologic setting -- Source of salt and health -- Indian accounts of great buffalo -- Gathering the bones -- Animal incognitum -- Thomas Jefferson takes an interest -- A question of tusks -- William Goforth's stolen specimens -- William Clark's bountiful collection -- The faunal list evolves -- Other mammoth changes -- Agents of extinction.
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Subject Paleontology -- Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Paleontology.
Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Mammoths -- Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Mammoths.
Mastodons -- Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Mastodons.
Mammals, Fossil -- Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Mammals, Fossil.
Fossils -- Kentucky -- Big Bone.
Fossils.
Big Bone (Ky.) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hedeen, Stanley. Big Bone Lick. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008 0813124859 9780813124858 (DLC) 2007040474 (OCoLC)173683736
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