The mystery of the mammoth bones
Subtitle: and how it was solved
By: James Cross Giblin
Contributors: HarperCollins (Firm)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780060274931; 9780060274948
Subjects: Museum curators; Juvenile literature; Paleontologists; Dinosaurs; Artists; Bones; Natural history; Mastodons; Biography
Other titles: Mammoth bones
Description: Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-91) and index.