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Bones for Barnum Brown : Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter /

Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R.T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle unt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bird, Roland T. (Roland Thaxter), 1899-1978
Other Authors: Schreiber, V. Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1985.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R.T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle until he met Barnum Brown, Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a leader in the study of dinosaurs. Beginning in 1934, Bird spent many years as an employee of the museum and as Brown's right-hand man in the field. His chart of the Howe Quarry.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (226 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780875655161