A Triceratops Hunt In Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals Of Barnum Brown & J.p. Sams : The University Of Kansas Expedition Of 1895

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One June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas.

The men a political candidate, a professor, two students, and an interested citizen were leaving town for the summer. They would live a few of the grasslands, badlands, dry, white-bottomed creek beds and Cretaceous rocks of eastern Wyoming, which they hoped to find wealthy in dinosaur bones.

Two of the students Barnum Brown, and Elmer Riggs would go on to lead two of crucial American careers in dinosaur paleontology of the twentieth century. Their professor, Samuel Wendell Williston, used to be just reaching his prime. For his new museum at the university, Williston wanted the skull of a Triceratops the enormous-headed, three-horned, rhino-like dinosaur of the Cretaceous Period, the first of which had been described for science only six years before. What would come to be known as the Kansas University Expedition of 1895 would succeed in finding just this type of skull.

Two accounts of the expedition live on, and both are offered here. Neither is heavy in scientific obscurities. Both offer fascinating snapshots of the West at a time when it used to be changing fast. The first journal used to be kept by Brown on his wagon journey from Kansas to Wyoming. The second one and far more extensive journal used to be kept by James Polk Sams, a middle aged Kansas farmer, former probate pass judgement on, and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Kansas. Sams used to be pious, humorous, teetotaling, curious and kind. The editors have put the diaries in context with footnotes.

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