Bone wars the excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur

"Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii--named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie--was the most famous dinosaur on the planet. The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen...

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Main Author: Rea, Tom (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Edition:Twentieth-anniversary edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Diplodocus carnegii
  • The Freehearted Frontier Hunter
  • The Most Colossal Animal
  • Culture in the Iron City
  • A Lizard in Wyoming Politics
  • Uncle Sam's Land
  • Hewn into Fragments
  • Some Good Luck at Last
  • The Ample Fossil Fields
  • Noble Champions of Truth
  • Patagonia
  • No More Reeds, No More Wortmans
  • Southern Dreams
  • When the Flag Drops
  • Heads and Tails
  • Celebrity.