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

By: Hedeen, Stanley.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008Description: xviii, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Paleontology -- Kentucky -- Big Bone | Mammoths -- Kentucky -- Big Bone | Mastodons -- Kentucky -- Big Bone | Mammals, Fossil -- Kentucky -- Big Bone | Fossils -- Kentucky -- Big Bone | Big Bone (Ky.) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 560.9769/363 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.