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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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Autor principal: Bird, Roland T. (Roland Thaxter), 1899-1978
Otros Autores: Schreiber, V. Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1985.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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