Big Bone Lick : The Cradle of American Paleontology

List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii 1. Geologic Setting 1 2. Source of Salt and Health 8 3. Indian Accounts of Great Buffalo 20 4. Gathering the Bones 31 5. Animal Incognitum 45 6. Thomas Jefferson Takes an Interest 56 7. A Question of Tusks 69 8. William Goforth's Stolen Specimens 83 9. William Clark's Bountiful Collection 96 10. The Faunal List Evolves 112 11. Other Mammoth Changes 123 12. Agents of Extinction 138 Notes 151 Index 175