| Description |
xvii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-369) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Mastodons -- North America.
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Mastodons. |
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North America. |
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Mammoths -- North America.
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Mammoths. |
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Mammals, Fossil -- North America.
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Mammals, Fossil. |
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Paleontology -- North America.
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Paleontology. |
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Paleontology -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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History. |
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Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| ISBN |
9780300117042 alkaline paper |
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0300117043 alkaline paper |
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