The Legacy of the Mastodon : The Golden Age of Fossils in America.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: The Jeffersonians -- ONE: Fossil Hunters on the Frontier -- TWO: Big Bone Lick -- THREE: Franklin, Jefferson, and the Incognitum -- FOUR: Jefferson's "Great-Claw" and a World About to Change -- FIVE: The First American Dinosaurs: An Eighteenth-Century Mystery Story -- SIX: Fossils and Show Business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- PART TWO: Fossils and Geology -- SEVEN: Fossils and Extinction: Dangerous Ideas -- EIGHT: Mary Anning's World -- NINE: An American Natural Science -- TEN: An American Geology -- ELEVEN: Bad Lands: No Time for Ideas -- TWELVE: Dr. Leidy's Dinosaur -- THIRTEEN: Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- PART THREE: Giant Saurians and Horned Mammals -- FOURTEEN: Kansas and a New Regime -- FIFTEEN: Entry of the Gladiators -- SIXTEEN: Riding the Rails -- SEVENTEEN: The First Yale College Expedition -- EIGHTEEN: The Competition Begins -- NINETEEN: Buffalo Land: Who Was Professor Paleozoic? -- TWENTY: 1872: The Year of Conflict -- TWENTY-ONE: The Case of the Great Horned Mammals -- TWENTY-TWO: Going Separate Ways -- TWENTY-THREE: Two into Four Won't Go -- TWENTY-FOUR: To the Black Hills -- TWENTY-FIVE: To the Judith River -- PART FOUR: Toward the Twentieth Century -- TWENTY-SIX: The Rise of Dinosaurs -- TWENTY-SEVEN: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- TWENTY-EIGHT: Going Public -- TWENTY-NINE: 1890: The End of the Beginning -- Appendixes -- The Geological Column -- Leidy on Evolution -- Cope on Evolution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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