Research Catalog

Title

Big Bone Lick [electronic resource] : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.

Author

Hedeen, Stanley.

Publication

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xviii, 182 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Big Bone Lick (Online)

Alternative Title

Big Bone Lick (Online)

Subject

• Paleontology > Kentucky > Big Bone
• Mammoths > Kentucky > Big Bone
• Mastodons > Kentucky > Big Bone
• Mammals, Fossil > Kentucky > Big Bone
• Fossils > Kentucky > Big Bone
• Big Bone (Ky.) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Geologic setting -- Source of salt and health -- Indian accounts of great buffalo -- Gathering the bones -- Animal incognitum -- Thomas Jefferson takes an interest -- A question of tusks -- William Goforth's stolen specimens -- William Clark's bountiful collection -- The faunal list evolves -- Other mammoth changes -- Agents of extinction.

LCCN

2007040474

OCLC

ssj0000111326

Author

Hedeen, Stanley.

Title

Big Bone Lick [electronic resource] : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.

Imprint

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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