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Barnum Brown :

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9780520945524

9781282556140

9786612556142

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9780520252646

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Barnum Brown :

[Book]

the man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex /

Lowell Dingus, Mark A. Norell.

Berkeley :

University of California Press,

©2010.

1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) :

illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.

Prologue : the mindset of Barnum Brown -- Child of the frontier (1873-1889) -- Student- of sorts (1889-1896) -- Apprentice extraordinaire (1896-1898) -- To land's end : Patagonia (1898-1900) -- To the depths of Hell Creek (1900-1903) -- Love (1903-1906) -- Loss (1906-1910) -- The Canadian dinosaur bone rush (1910-1916) -- Cuba, Abyssinia, and other intrigues (1916-1923) -- Jewels from the Orient : Raj India (1921-1923) -- Perils and pearls up the Irrawaddy : Burma (1923) -- Samos : isle of intrigue (1923-1925) -- Ancient Americans hunting bison? Birds as dinosaurs? (1925-1931) -- Digging -- and flying -- for dinosaurs : Howe Quarry and the aerial survey of western fossil beds (1931-1935) -- Toward the golden years : the mystery track-maker and the Glen Rose Trackway (1935-1942) -- Brown as a spy, movie consultant, and showman at the World's Fair (1942-1963) -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. List of major specimens collected by Barnum Brown on display in the AMNH fossil halls -- Appendix 2. Memoirs of Barnum Brown : discovery, excavation, and preparation of the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex -- Appendix 3. Summary of fossil collections by Barnum Brown and his AMNH crews.

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From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils-and sometimes oil-in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown-who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man-became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawi.

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Barnum Brown.

9780520252646

Brown, Barnum.

Brown, Barnum.

Paleontologists-- United States, Biography.

Tyrannosaurus rex.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.

NATURE-- Animals-- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.

NATURE-- Fossils.

Paleontologists.

SCIENCE-- Paleontology.

Tyrannosaurus rex.

United States.

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Dingus, Lowell.

Norell, Mark.

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