Hedeen, Stanley.

Big Bone Lick the cradle of American paleontology / [electronic resource] : Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008. - xviii, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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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2009.
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Paleontology--Kentucky--Big Bone.
Mammoths--Kentucky--Big Bone.
Mastodons--Kentucky--Big Bone.
Mammals, Fossil--Kentucky--Big Bone.
Fossils--Kentucky--Big Bone.


Big Bone (Ky.)--History.


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