LEADER 04811nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910815103703321 005 20240418005515.0 010 $a1-282-08860-2 010 $a9786612088605 010 $a0-300-15184-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300151848 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764782 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050011 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000190967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000190967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10183793 035 $a(PQKB)10779274 035 $a(DE-B1597)485441 035 $a(OCoLC)1024044235 035 $a(OCoLC)1029811903 035 $a(OCoLC)1032678627 035 $a(OCoLC)994349950 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300151848 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579352 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208860 035 $a(OCoLC)923600319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420953 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764782 100 $a20070910d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe legacy of the Mastodon $ethe golden age of fossils in America /$fKeith Thomson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (424 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11704-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index. 327 $aPt. 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. 330 $aThe uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs. This exciting book tells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890. The volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the American mastodon led him to champion the study of fossil vertebrates. The book continues with vivid descriptions of the actual work of prospecting for fossils--a pick in one hand, a rifle in the other--and enthralling portraits of Joseph Leidy, Ferdinand Hayden, Edward Cope, and Othniel Marsh among other major figures in the development of the science of paleontology. Shedding new light on these scientists' feuds and rivalries, on the connections between fossil studies in Europe and America, and on paleontology's contributions to America's developing national identity, The Legacy of the Mastodon is itself a fabulous discovery for every reader to treasure. 606 $aMastodons$zNorth America 606 $aMammoths$zNorth America 606 $aMammals, Fossil$zNorth America 606 $aPaleontology$zNorth America 606 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPaleontology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aMastodons 615 0$aMammoths 615 0$aMammals, Fossil 615 0$aPaleontology 615 0$aPaleontology$xHistory. 615 0$aPaleontology$xHistory 615 0$aPaleontology$xHistory 676 $a560.973/09033 700 $aThomson$b Keith Stewart$0531470 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815103703321 996 $aThe legacy of the Mastodon$93999750 997 $aUNINA