The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush

Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Paul D. Brinkman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

345 Seiten

2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75216-7 (ISBN)

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The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country.

Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Paul D. Brinkman is head of the History of Science Research Lab and curator of special collections at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science as well as adjunct associate professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Scientists Wage Bitter Warfare

2 Osborn’s Sorry Valentine

3 Wortman Assumes Charge

4 Most Colossal Animal on Earth

5 An Overconfident Start

6 The Monster of All Ages

7 A Monkey and a Parrot of a Time

8 Fossil Wonders of the West

9 Watch the Dinosaur Shrink!

10 Hatcher Heads West

11 Last Days in the Jurassic

12 Putting Dinosaurs in Their Places

Conclusion: What’s the Rush?

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	31 halftones, 8 line drawings
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	0-226-75216-X / 022675216X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-75216-7 / 9780226752167
Zustand	Neuware