Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iv
3. Maps and Tables viii
4. Preface x
5. Acknowledgments xiv
6. part one: The Jeffersonians
7. 1. Fossil Hunters on the Frontier 3
8. 2. Big Bone Lick 10
9. 3. Franklin, Jefferson, and the Incognitum 24
10. 4. Jefferson’s “Great-Claw” and a World About to Change 34
11. 5. The First American Dinosaurs An Eighteenth-Century Mystery Story 41
12. 6. Fossils and Show Business Mr. Peale’s Mastodon 46
13. part two: Fossils and Geology
14. 7. Fossils and Extinction Dangerous Ideas 57
15. 8. Mary Anning’s World 72
16. 9. An American Natural Science 86
17. 10. An American Geology 98
18. 11. Bad Lands No Time for Ideas 105
19. 12. Dr. Leidy’s Dinosaur 122
20. 13. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden 126
21. part three: Giant Saurians and Horned Mammals
22. 14. Kansas and a New Regime 147
23. 15. Entry of the Gladiators 155
24. 16. Riding the Rails 168
25. 17. The First Yale College Expedition 177
26. 18. The Competition Begins 207
27. 19. Buffalo Land Who Was Professor Paleozoic? 216
28. 20. 1872 The Year of Conflict 227
29. 21.The Case of the Great Horned Mammals 245
30. 22. Going Separate Ways 258
31. 23. Two into Four Won’t Go 270
32. 24. To the Black Hills 279
33. 25. To the Judith River 287
34. part four: Toward the Twentieth Century
35. 26. The Rise of Dinosaurs 295
36. 27. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 311
37. 28. Going Public 326
38. 28. 1890 The End of the Beginning 333
39. Appendix A The Geological Column 351
40. Appendix B Leidy on Evolution 354
41. Appendix C Cope on Evolution 357
42. Notes 361
43. Index 387