TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Keith Stewart
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The legacy of the Mastodon: the golden age of fossils in America 
AV  - QE882.P8 T46 2008eb
U1  - 560.973/09033 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Mastodons
KW  - North America
KW  - Mammoths
KW  - Mammals, Fossil
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10579352
ER  -