DISCG DINOSAURS [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

by KOHL MICHAEL F (Author)

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Lakes (1844-1917), an Oxford University alumnus who taught geology at Colorado's School of Mines for more than 20 years, recorded in both words and sketches the discovery of major dinosaur fossils in the wilderness of Colorado and Wyoming between 1877 and 1880. Editor Kohl (special collections, Clemson Univ. Lib.) discovered Lakes's missing journals in the Smithsonian Institution Archives; along with McIntosh (emeritus, physics, Wesleyan Univ.), he aims here to bring the excitement of the discovery of dinosaur remains under rigorous conditions to the general reader of science. The text has been modernized, and maps and inset biographical summaries with portraits are used to clarify locations and persons mentioned in the journal entries. Some of Lakes's watercolors are included as well. Despite the editors' intention, the journals will appeal more to specialists than general readers, who will find John R. Horner and James Gorman's Digging Dinosaurs (LJ 1/89) more riveting and informative.?Edward K. Werner, St. Lucie Cty. Lib. System, Ft. Pierce, Fla.
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"Between 1877 and 1880, geologist Arthur Lakes filled field journals with eyewitness reports on the early days of vertebrate paleontology in [Colorado and] Wyoming. His accounts of wildlife, the Indian Wars, and academic warfare between rival paleontologists...offer a rare glimpse of tough-and-ready dinosaur hunting in the Old West." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 198 pages
• Publisher: Smithsonian; illustrated edition edition (August 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560987006
• ISBN-13: 978-1560987000
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A unique presentation of the original journal entries, July 11, 2002

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This review is from: Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Author Lakes (Paperback)

Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West: The Field Journals Of Arthur Lakes, deftly edited by Michael F. Kohl (Amateur paleontologist, Head of Special Collections at the Clemson university Library, and the discovered of Lake's missing journals) and John S. McIntosh (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University and a paleontologist specializing in sauropods), is a unique presentation of the original journal entries from 1877 to 1880 by geologist Arthur Lakes and presented with numerous annotations, clarifications, maps, black-and-white photographs and a great deal more. Enhanced with an informative foreword by John Ostrom (Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophyiscs, Yale University) Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West is a superbly presented and invaluable addition to personal, professional, and academic paleontology supplemental reading lists and reference collections.