Research Catalog

Title

The legacy of the Mastodon : the golden age of fossils in America / Keith Thomson.

Author

Thomson, Keith Stewart.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

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Description

xvii, 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Mastodons > North America
• Mammoths > North America
• Mammals, Fossil > North America
• Paleontology > North America
• Paleontology > United States > History
• Paleontology > United States > History > 18th century
• Paleontology > United States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780300117042 (alk. paper)
• 0300117043 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007037329

OCLC

171049906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library