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Dinosaur Mountain
Digging into the Jurassic Age
By Ray, Deborah Kogan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37431-789-8
- Publisher
- Foster Farrar
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
Gr 3-6 Using the same tawny palette as in "Down the Colorado" (Farrar, 2007), Ray has painted soft-edged backdrops for her lucid exposition of the life work of Earl Douglass, fossil-finder extraordinaire. Benefitting from the Cope/Marsh "Bone Wars" and the deep pockets of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, Douglass embarked on a1909 expedition to the Uinta Basin (Utah) to find Carnegie's demand for "something...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
Continuing her interest in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century explorations of the American West (see Down the Colorado, rev. 1/08), Ray takes readers to the discoveries of prehistoric bones in what is now Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah. Striking endpapers tantalize readers with an Apatosaurus skeleton—fossil expert Earl Douglass's most dramatic find. Douglass's expeditions began in 1908 when Andrew Carnegie sent him to find "something big" that he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Earl Douglass's expeditions in what is now Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah began in 1908 when Andrew Carnegie sent him ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
A look at a fascinating time in the history of dinosaur discoveries, when some paleontologists were competing in what became known as the “Bone Wars.” The illust...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
