Big Bone Lick [electronic resource] : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.
Publication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.Description: xviii, 182 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0813124859 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813124858 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 560.9769/363 22
- QE705.U6 H43 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.
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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