Title: The mystery of the 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."
Subjects: Museum curators, Juvenile literature, Paleontologists, Dinosaurs, Artists, Bones, Natural history, Mastodons, Biography, Mastodon, Paleontology, juvenile literature, Peale, charles willson, 1741-1827, Fossils
Places: United States, New York (State), Newburgh
People: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)