Big Bone Lick
Subtitle: the cradle of American paleontology
By: Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780813124858
Subjects: Paleontology -- Kentucky -- Big Bone; Mammoths -- Kentucky -- Big Bone; Mastodons -- Kentucky -- Big Bone; Mammals, Fossil -- Kentucky -- Big Bone; Fossils -- Kentucky -- Big Bone; Big Bone (Ky.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Geologic setting; title: Source of salt and health; title: Indian accounts of great buffalo; title: Gathering the bones; title: Animal incognitum; title: Thomas Jefferson takes an interest; title: A question of tusks; title: William Goforth's stolen specimens; title: William Clark's bountiful collection; title: The faunal list evolves; title: Other mammoth changes; title: Agents of extinction.