The legacy of the Mastodon : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson.
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xvii, 386 p. |
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100 | 1 | |a Thomson, Keith Stewart. | |
245 | 1 | 4 | |a The legacy of the Mastodon |h [electronic resource] : |b the golden age of fossils in America / |c Keith Thomson. |
260 | |a New Haven : |b Yale University Press, |c c2008. | ||
300 | |a xvii, 386 p. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Mastodons |z North America. | |
650 | 0 | |a Mammoths |z North America. | |
650 | 0 | |a Mammals, Fossil |z North America. | |
650 | 0 | |a Paleontology |z North America. | |
650 | 0 | |a Paleontology |z United States |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Paleontology |z United States |x History |y 18th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Paleontology |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
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