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Rieppel, Lukas

Summary: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest businesstycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.75 RIE

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