Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur Lakes

by John S. McIntosh

Arthur Lakes's field journals vividly capture the excitement of unearthing the enormous vertebrae, femurs, humeri, ribs, teeth, and claws of apatosaurus (brontosaurus), stegosaurus, and allosaurus as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560989637
• ISBN13: 9781560989639
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A unique presentation of the original journal entries

Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West: The Field Journals Of Arthur Lakes, deftly edited by Michael F. Kohl (Amateur paleontologist, Head of Special Collections at the Clemson university Library, and the discovered of Lake's missing journals) and John S. McIntosh (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University and a paleontologist specializing in sauropods), is a unique presentation of the original journal entries from 1877 to 1880 by geologist Arthur Lakes and presented with numerous annotations, clarifications, maps, black-and-white photographs and a great deal more. Enhanced with an informative foreword by John Ostrom (Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophyiscs, Yale University) Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West is a superbly presented and invaluable addition to personal, professional, and academic paleontology supplemental reading lists and reference collections.