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Author:
Hunting, Jill, 1950- author.
Title:
For want of wings : a bird with teeth and a dinosaur in the family / Jill Hunting.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
244 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Hunting, Jill,--1950-
Marsh, Othniel Charles,--1831-1899.
Paleontologists--United States--Biography.
Birds, Fossil--History.
Fossils--Collection and preservation--Kansas.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Caught in a Buffalo Stampede -- Origins -- Strata -- The 1872 Yale College Scientific Expedition -- Go to Kansas -- Diaspora -- Return to Kansas
Summary:
"Part detective history, part memoir, in this book Jill Hunting tells the story of her journey across the United States and into the realms of prehistory, national history, and family history as she follows her great-grandfather's trail to the fossil bed where he discovered an 83-million-year-old avian dinosaur"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
080617661X
9780806176611
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1264753109
LCCN:
2021031932
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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