The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America

Pt. One: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil Hunters On The Frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, And The Incognitum -- Jefferson's Great-claw And A World About To Change -- The First American Dinosaurs: An Eighteenth-century Mystery Story -- Fossils And Show Business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. Two: Fossils And Geology -- Fossils And Extinction: Dangerous Ideas -- Mary Anning's World -- An American Natural Science -- An American Geology -- Bad Lands: No Time For Ideas -- Dr. Leidy's Dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. Three: Giant Saurians And Horned Mammals -- Kansas And A New Regime -- Entry Of The Gladiators -- Riding The Rails -- The First Yale College Expedition -- The Competition Begins -- Buffalo Land: Who Was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: The Year Of Conflict -- The Case Of The Great Horned Mammals -- Going Separate Ways -- Two Into Four Won't Go -- To The Black Hills -- To The Judith River -- Pt. Four: Toward The Twentieth Century -- The Rise Of Dinosaurs -- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly -- Going Public -- 1890: The End Of The Beginning -- Appendixes -- The Geological Column -- Leidy On Evolution -- Cope On Evolution. Keith Thomson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 345-369) And Index.