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

Author/creator Hedeen, Stanley
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008.
Descriptionxviii, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.
LCCN 2007040474
ISBN0813124859 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813124858 (hardcover : alk. paper)