Book ID: CBB000774877

The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America (2008)

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Thomson, Keith Stewart (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xvii + 386 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Covers the discoveries at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, from the 1750s to the 1890s.


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Review Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2009) Review of "The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 433). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
McMillan, R. Bruce
Joseph H. Hartman
Zizzamia, Daniel
Cameron, Marlena Briane
Daniel Francis Zizzamia
Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Leonardo
Filson Club History Quarterly
Environmental History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Montana State University
University Press of Kentucky
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Florida State University
Concepts
Fossils
Paleontology
Natural history
Dinosaurs
Geology
Earth sciences
People
Koch, Albert C.
Williams, Henry Shaler
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Troost, Gerard
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Maillet, Benoît de
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Kentucky (U.S.)
Wyoming (U.S.)
Nebraska (U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
Missouri (U.S.)
Institutions
University of Wyoming
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
Københavns Universitet (Copenhagen)
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