Bones for Barnum Brown: Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter

by Roland T. Bird

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875650112
• ISBN13: 9780875650111
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 11.8"