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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Fort Worth :
Texas Christian University Press,
1985.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780875655161 |