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King of the dinosaur hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology
First Pegasus Books edition.
- Author
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Dingus, Lowell.
- Publisher:
- Pegasus Books,
- Pub date:
- 2018.
- Pages:
- xxiv, 520 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
- ISBN:
- 9781681778655
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King of the dinosaur hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology
First Pegasus Books edition.
Dingus, Lowell.
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King of the dinosaur hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology
First Pegasus Books edition.
Dingus, Lowell.
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Personal Author:
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Dingus, Lowell.
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Title:
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King of the dinosaur hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology / Lowell Dingus.
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Edition:
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First Pegasus Books edition.
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Physical description:
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xxiv, 520 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Contents:
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Glossary of Genera -- Prologue -- Section I: 1864-1884. Becoming Marsh's minion -- Marsh: The Master -- Section II: 1884-1893. Wrestling with rhinos, as well as authority -- Messin' with Texas and returning for rhinos -- Thunder Beasts -- Tracking Triceratops and mining mini-mammals -- Pondering other options -- Hail the Hadrosaurs and Trumpet Torosaurus -- An unexpected ending -- Section III: 1893-1900. From Princeton to the Plains with an eye on Patagonia -- A tango with the tides among Patagonian Panoramas -- Discovery followed by disease and disappointment -- Section IV: 1900-1904. Carnegies Colossus -- Hatchers Hiring and Shenanigans at Sheep Creek -- Documenting Diplodocus along with a massive menagerie -- An Eruption of research and astonishing acquisitions -- The curtain closes -- Woe and wrangling in the wake -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Contracts and agreements between O.C. Marsh and J.B. Hatcher -- Appendix 2: Year-By-Year lists of specimens collected by Hatcher and his field crews -- Bibliography for John Bell Hatcher -- References other than Hatcher's publications.
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Summary:
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"Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The life of the "King of Collectors" is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, a slender-necked, long-tailed, plant-eater whose skeleton has captivated our collective imaginations for more than a century. But that wasn't all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary collecting campaign in Wyoming between 1889 and 1892, Hatcher discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66 million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity's own evolutionary history. Hatcher's discoveries form the bases of some of the most beloved and well-known collections and institutions in the world--Yale, The Peabody Museum, Princeton University, the Carnegie Museum, and more. Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years after Hatcher's monumental "hunts" ended, acclaimed paleontologist Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher's captivating expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology"--Dust jacket flap.
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Personal subject:
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Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904.
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Subject term:
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Paleontologists--United States--Biography.
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Subject term:
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Paleontology--United States--History.
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Subject term:
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Dinosaurs--Collection and preservation--History.
