The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-02
SOME REAL HUNTING
In the OIden Days, When Huge AnI-
 maIs Roamed America.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 From the days of Nimrod down to those of Roosevelt the hunting of "big game" has always been regarded as a supremely manly sport.
 Alphonse Daudet's immortal creation, Tartarin of Tarascon, embodied in his own person the longings of untold men. The man who sits at ease by his own fire side dreams of the hunter who ventures far from civilization in his quest for ele- plants, lions and tigers. as the retiring President of the United States is about to do. His own shooting may be as limited In its range as that of Tartarin, but in imagination he has encountered all the great beasts of prey still extant.
 But the biggest game that can now be found on the earth is as nothing compared with the mammoth creatures belonging to the prehistoric ages of the worlds forma- ton, and, strange to say, these extinct monsters are still pursued by the hunter of today. In his search for them he often endures as many hardships and braves as many dangers as the man who follows the trail in the forest with rifle in hand.
 For this hunter of big game no-longer living is the fossil seeker, and his work often leads him into regions not only un- inhabited by human beings, but contain ing nothing in the way of food or water to nourish him. His greatest discoveries, indeed, have been made in places where the world has literally been dead for countless centuries
 And yet strange to say. it Is in America that the most valuable of these fossil re- mains have been found. Readers of Owen Wister's stories of life in the Wyoming of 20 or 30 years ago know something of the general character of the Bad Lands kt@ Co which forms vast graveyard for these grotesque monsters of the primitive world Here may be found the bones of the gi- gantio lizards known as dinosaurs as well as those of huge turtles and croco- diles older than any that ever floated in the Nile.
 Men of science throughout the world now regard Bone Cabin Quarry. Wyo- ming, as by far the greatest hunting ground for these animals of the past that has yet been discovered The story of the hill and valley, as read by the geologist, shows that this was once fer tile country with it's trees, bushes and grass nourished by rivers and lakes. so that 1t afforded abundant food for the biggest living things the world has ever known. Tn fact, nearly all of the little valley lying near the Bow Head river in this part of Wyoming is within the boundaries of the graveyard but geolo- '. and as yet the fossil hunters have only worked near the present surface of the earth.
 The hunter of prehistoric big game must bring to his aid a knowledge of geology and natural history. Their weapons are chiefly the pick and spade; but some of the places containing the fossilized skele- tons are so large that they use blows and scrapers drawn by horses to remove the earth covering. Nature buried these ex- tinct animals in a curious way in certain layers of earth and rock Sometimes a part of the layer lies close to the surface of the plain or forms portion of the Jutting hillside; the other end of tho layer may be thousanus uI t~st pti- ground. It so happens that part of the graveyard of the dinosaurs comes to the surface right at the spot now known as Bone Cabin Quarry, and 1t was here that the first important discovery of a tossu was Fnada