Lives & Memoirs
Life of a Fossil Hunter
Charles Sternberg
1909
7h 16m
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He dug for Cope, and Cope did not pay well. Sternberg spent fifty years on his knees in the chalk of Kansas and the badlands beyond, prying out mosasaurs, the famous duckbill mummy with its skin still on it, and enough bone to stock museums on two continents. The bone rush told by the man who did the digging.
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14 chapters
- 1Preface and Introduction6m
- 2Early Days and Work in the Dakota Group of the Cretaceous45m
- 3First Expedition to the Kansas Chalk (1876)43m
- 4Expedition with Professor Cope to the Bad Lands of the Upper Cretaceous (1876) - Part 132m
- 5Expedition with Professor Cope to the Bad Lands of the Upper Cretaceous (1876) - Part 232m
- 6Further Work in the Kansas Chalk (1877)32m
- 7Discovery of the Loup Fork Beds of Kansas and Subsequent Work There (1877, 1882–1884)38m
- 8Expedition to the Oregon Desert in 187740m
- 9Expedition to the John Day River in 1878 - Part 125m
- 10Expedition to the John Day River in 1878 - Part 231m
- 11First Expedition to the Permian of Texas in 188239m
- 12Expeditions in the Permian of Texas for Professor Cope (1895–1897)21m
- 13In the Red Beds of Texas for the Royal Museum of Munich (1901)28m
- 14Conclusion23m
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