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

  • Hedeen, Stanley.
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[2008], ©2008
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Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2008], ©2008.

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xviii, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

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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    History of Medicine
    AKE.6
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  • 0813124859
  • 9780813124858