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OverviewOne June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas. The mena politician, a professor, two students, and an interested citizenwere leaving town for the summer. They would live among the grasslands, badlands, dry, white-bottomed creek beds and Cretaceous rocks of eastern Wyoming, which they hoped to find rich in dinosaur bones. Two of the studentsBarnum Brown, and Elmer Riggswould go on to lead two of the most important American careers in dinosaur paleontology of the twentieth century. Their professor, Samuel Wendell Williston, was just reaching his prime. For his new museum at the university, Williston wanted the skull of a Triceratopsthe enormous-headed, three-horned, rhino-like dinosaur of the Cretaceous Period, the first of which had been described for science only six years before. What would come to be called the Kansas University Expedition of 1895 would succeed in finding just such a skull. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barnum Brown , Michael F Kohl , Larry D Martin, PH.D. (University of Kansas) , Paul BrinkmanPublisher: High Plains Press Imprint: High Plains Press Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9780931271779ISBN 10: 0931271770 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 01 September 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Academic but accessible to the general reader...""" Academic but accessible to the general reader... Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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