Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813124858)

On March 7, 1808, President Thomas Jefferson received a long-awaited shipment of approximately 300 fossils from William Clark, who had just completed his westward expedition with Meriwether Lewis. The fossils were unearthed at Big Bone Lick in northern Kentucky, and over the years they had gained the interest of such prominent figures as Daniel Boone, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. Jefferson's receipt of the fossils was the realization of more than twenty years of the philosopherstate

Author: Stanley Hedeen
ISBN-10: 0813124859
ISBN-13: 9780813124858
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2008
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.57h x 6.40w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/26/2007 pg. 39
Library Journal 02/15/2008 pg. 128
Science Books & Films 07/01/2008 pg. 162