Big Bone Lick : the cradle of American paleontology

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hedeen, Stanley
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008.
Subjects:
Paleontology > Kentucky > Big Bone.
Mammoths > Kentucky > Big Bone.
Mastodons > Kentucky > Big Bone.
Mammals, Fossil > Kentucky > Big Bone.
Fossils > Kentucky > Big Bone.
NATURE > Fossils.
NATURE > Animals > Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Fossils
Mammals, Fossil
Mammoths
Mastodons
Paleontology
Big Bone (Ky.) > History.
Kentucky > Big Bone
History
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Table of 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.

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