The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones
And How It Was Solved
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1999]
Format: Book
Description: 97 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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:
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 -- Juvenile literature.
Mastodons -- New York (State) -- Newburgh -- Juvenile literature.
Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography.
Mastodons -- Juvenile literature.
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 -- Juvenile literature.
Mastodons -- New York (State) -- Newburgh -- Juvenile literature.
Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography.
Mastodons -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1120L
ISBN:
006027493X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C ANIMALS Prehistoric Mammal Mammoth Gib | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91) and index.