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" Barnum Brown : "
Lowell Dingus, Mark A. Norell.
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BL
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1013644
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b768014
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Dingus, Lowell.
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Barnum Brown : : the man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex /\ Lowell Dingus, Mark A. Norell.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0520945522
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: 1282556142
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: 6612556145
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: 9780520945524
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: 9781282556140
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: 9786612556142
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0520252640
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9780520252646
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.
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Prologue : the mindset of Barnum Brown -- Child of the frontier (1873-1889) -- Student- of sorts (1889-1896) -- Apprentice extraordinaire (1896-1898) -- To land's end : Patagonia (1898-1900) -- To the depths of Hell Creek (1900-1903) -- Love (1903-1906) -- Loss (1906-1910) -- The Canadian dinosaur bone rush (1910-1916) -- Cuba, Abyssinia, and other intrigues (1916-1923) -- Jewels from the Orient : Raj India (1921-1923) -- Perils and pearls up the Irrawaddy : Burma (1923) -- Samos : isle of intrigue (1923-1925) -- Ancient Americans hunting bison? Birds as dinosaurs? (1925-1931) -- Digging -- and flying -- for dinosaurs : Howe Quarry and the aerial survey of western fossil beds (1931-1935) -- Toward the golden years : the mystery track-maker and the Glen Rose Trackway (1935-1942) -- Brown as a spy, movie consultant, and showman at the World's Fair (1942-1963) -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. List of major specimens collected by Barnum Brown on display in the AMNH fossil halls -- Appendix 2. Memoirs of Barnum Brown : discovery, excavation, and preparation of the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex -- Appendix 3. Summary of fossil collections by Barnum Brown and his AMNH crews.
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From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils-and sometimes oil-in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown-who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man-became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawi.
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Brown, Barnum.
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Brown, Barnum.
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Paleontologists-- United States, Biography.
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Tyrannosaurus rex.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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NATURE-- Animals-- Dinosaurs Prehistoric Creatures.
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NATURE-- Fossils.
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Paleontologists.
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SCIENCE-- Paleontology.
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Tyrannosaurus rex.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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560.92
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QE707.B77D56 2010eb
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Norell, Mark.
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