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Bones for Barnum Brown: Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter

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While the legendary R.T. travelled across the US and Mexico on his Harley (with camper sidecar), he kept his eyes open for curious objects. After years showing prize dairy cattle, he started his paleontological career with the finding of a new and special amphibian fossil. He ws soon mapping the mass of dinosaur bones at the Howe Quarry site for the famous Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History, and continued that association while searching for foot prints of dinosaurs. This eventually led to Glen Rose, Texas where there were reports of large, three-toed tracks on and in the Paluxy River. While clearing some of these for photographing, he discovered that some large pits close by were really tracks of a creature with feet 38 inches long. A sauropod, the first ever so attributed! This book recounts many of this great man's finds and travails, a readable account certainly worth buying.