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Big Bone Lick the cradle of American paleontology
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Title
Big Bone Lick [electronic resource] : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.
ISBN
9780813150079
0813150078
0813124859 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813124858 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 182 p. :) ill., maps ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.
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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