Bones for Barnum Brown : adventures of a dinosaur hunter /
Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R.T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle unt...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©1985. |
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| Summary: | Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R.T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle until he met Barnum Brown, Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a leader in the study of dinosaurs. Beginning in 1934, Bird spent many years as an employee of the museum and as Brown's right-hand man in the field. His chart of the Howe Quarry. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 9780875655161 0875655165 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |