The Life of a Fossil Hunter

By Charles H. Sternberg

Book Overview

This classic memoir-first published in 1909 and long out of print-is part scientific autobiography, part adventure story, and all an authentic piece of Americana. It tells the story of Charles Sternberg and his life-long passion for dinosaur fossils. Sternberg writes vividly of his discoveries and of the hardships and dangers of collecting fossils in the wild West. His book is an extraordinary record of science in the rough and a unique view of life on the frontier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205719
• ISBN13: 9780253205711
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.1" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Hunting Dinosaurs from Kansas to the Oregon Desert

Dinosaur hunting in Kansas, Wyoming and Texas with sixty pages devoted to an "Expedition to the John Day River in 1878" and the Oregon Desert in 1877 where Sternberg hit paydirt under 10,000 feet of sedimentary and volcanic rock from the Cretaceous era.