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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 doz...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rea, Tom, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Edición:Twentieth anniversary edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna -- 1. Diplodocus carnegii -- 2. The Freehearted Frontier Hunter -- 3. The Most Colossal Animal -- 4. Culture in the Iron City -- 5. A Lizard in Wyoming Politics -- 6. Uncle Sam's Land -- 7. Hewn into Fragments -- 8. Some Good Luck at Last -- 9. The Ample Fossil Fields -- 10. Noble Champions of Truth -- 11. Patagonia -- 12. No More Reeds, No More Wortmans -- 13. Southern Dreams -- 14. When the Flag Drops -- 15. Heads and Tails -- 16. Celebrity -- Epilogue -- Afterword by Tom Rea -- Milestones -- Notes -- Bibliography 
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