Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Hunting for Truffles ix
4. 1. A West That Was Actually Wild 1
5. 2. The Patriarch 9
6. 3. The Education of O. C. Marsh 22
7. 4. The Wooing of George Peabody 28
8. 5. Rock Render 39
9. 6. A Rumor of War 51
10. 7. The Marsh Expeditions 58
11. 8. Professor M on the Warpath 73
12. 9. The Year of Enormous Dinosaurs 82
13. 10. Fossils, Buffalo, and the Birth of American Conservation 95
14. 11. A Building of Their Own 105
15. 12. In the Shadow of O. C. Marsh 113
16. 13. The Prince of Bone Hunters 127
17. 14. Bone Wars 136
18. 15. Trilobite Magic and Cycad Obsessions 146
19. 16. Mapping Ancient Worlds 159
20. 17. A City Raised Like a Chalice 172
21. 18. Teaching Evolution 184
22. 19. The Rise of Modern Ecology 199
23. 20. The Beauty of the Beasts 208
24. 21. The Art of Being Invisible 218
25. 22. Into the Unmapped World 226
26. 23. Zoology in the Time of Geneticists 243
27. 24. The Man Who Saved Dinosaurs 266
28. Epilogue 274
29. The Peabody’s Scientists 281
30. Acknowledgments 291
31. Notes 293
32. Illustration Credits 317
33. Index 323