Charles H. Sternberg recounts his years as a professional fossil collector, from early work in the Dakota sandstone to the Kansas chalk beds in 1876 and an expedition to the Badlands with Edward Drinker Cope. He describes camp life, heat and danger, the slow labour of freeing bones from rock, and the joy of each discovery, with an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
A first-hand memoir of the great age of American fossil hunting, for anyone who loves dinosaurs or the old West. Download the free EPUB.