A Triceratops Hunt In Pioneer Wyoming

Author : Barnum Brown,James Polk Sams,Michael F. Kohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0931271770

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A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming by Barnum Brown,James Polk Sams,Michael F. Kohl Pdf

One June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas. The mena politician, a professor, two students, and an interested citizenwere leaving town for the summer. They would live among the grasslands, badlands, dry, white-bottomed creek beds and Cretaceous rocks of eastern Wyoming, which they hoped to find rich in dinosaur bones. Two of the studentsBarnum Brown, and Elmer Riggswould go on to lead two of the most important American careers in dinosaur paleontology of the twentieth century. Their professor, Samuel Wendell Williston, was just reaching his prime. For his new museum at the university, Williston wanted the skull of a Triceratopsthe enormous-headed, three-horned, rhino-like dinosaur of the Cretaceous Period, the first of which had been described for science only six years before. What would come to be called the Kansas University Expedition of 1895 would succeed in finding just such a skull.

Author : The Big Horn Basin Foundation
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439654606

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Wyoming's Dinosaur Discoveries by The Big Horn Basin Foundation Pdf

Wyoming is home to some of the world’s most famous dinosaurs. As early as 1872, dinosaurs were excavated, placed on railcars, and shipped east. For the past 140 years, paleontologists have scoured Wyoming to excavate tens of thousands of dinosaur bones, now displayed internationally. It was not until 1961 that a dinosaur from Wyoming was mounted and placed on display at the University of Wyoming’s Geological Museum in Laramie.

Author : Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226074733

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The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush by Paul D. Brinkman Pdf

The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004343788

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Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives by Anne S. Troelstra Pdf

With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions.

Author : Jeremy Vetter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981459

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Field Life by Jeremy Vetter Pdf

Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.

Author : Gregory P. Wilson,William A. Clemens,John R. Horner,Joseph H. Hartman
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813725031

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Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas by Gregory P. Wilson,William A. Clemens,John R. Horner,Joseph H. Hartman Pdf

"The chapters represent a surge of field and laboratory research activity, illustrating the impacts of new and refined methods and tools. This volume explores geologic and biologic history preserved in the strata bounding the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lowell Dingus,Mark Norell
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520272613

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Barnum Brown by Lowell Dingus,Mark Norell Pdf

From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873–1963), spending most of it searching for fossils—and sometimes oil—in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown—who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies’ man—became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown’s field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels—from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown’s extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004323841

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Naturalists in the Field by Anonim Pdf

Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.

Author : Kathryn S. Brogan,Robert Lee Brewer,Joanna Masterson
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1582974012

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Writer's Market by Kathryn S. Brogan,Robert Lee Brewer,Joanna Masterson Pdf

Providing writers with instant access to up-to-date contact information, Writer's Market Deluxe Edition is the most cutting-edge resource available. Along with the invaluable information found in Writer's Market, this deluxe edition: Includes a one-year subscription to WritersMarket.com Provides access to over 1,000 additional markets online Features access to interactive tools like the Submission Tracker, which allows writers to stay on top of their submissions With all the information that's made Writer's Market a success, the deluxe edition takes it to the online level - making it truly an essential tool.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Authorship
ISBN : UOM:39015062125946

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The Writer's Market by Anonim Pdf

Contains a list of entries that provide potential markets for writers, covering magazines, publishers, syndicates, and contests, providing information on submission requirements, pay scale, freelance work, and listings of editors and agents.

Author : Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : MINN:31951P01038602L

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The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905 by Paul D. Brinkman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Geology
ISBN : IOWA:31858063612497

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Special Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond John Howgego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : UOM:39015077670803

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Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850 to 1940 by Raymond John Howgego Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043210

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elaine Marie Alphin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1415562210

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Dinosaur Hunter by Elaine Marie Alphin Pdf

In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.