Fossil legends of the first Americans /
"The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
[2007, 2005]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781400849314 1400849314 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Marsh monsters of big bone lick
- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo
- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror
- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers
- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals
- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones
- Common ground
- Fossil frauds and specious legends.