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From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils--and sometimes oil--in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown--who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man--became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown's field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels--from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown's extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.
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The monster's bones : the discovery of T. rex and how it shook our world
\"From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn turn dinosaurs into a beloved part of culture\"-- Provided by publisher
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Barnum Brown
From his stunning discovery ofTyrannosaurus rexone hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils-and sometimes oil-in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown-who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man-became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered.Barnum Brownbrushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown's field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels-from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown's extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.
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The monster's bones : the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world
\"A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of 25 miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. Vivid and engaging, The Monster's Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times best-selling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Highway construction took many turns
Two men were primarily responsible for locating and developing the rich fossil beds around Steveville. The first was Barnum Brown, of the American Museum of Natural History. A rancher from the Alberta badlands happened to visit the Museum in the spring of 1909 and remarked to Brown that there were many similar fossils near his ranch. Enthused Brown visited the ranch that summer and saw the evidence with his own eyes.
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MIKE GOODSON: Alabama once 'sweet home' for dinosaurs
Ice Age animals have been found throughout Alabama, ranging from large mammoth teeth to fossilized horse teeth and giant crocodile teeth. More than half of Alabama was covered by the ocean millions of years ago, and large sharks, cretaceous fish and giant mosasaurs were prevalent in these waters. Remains of those creatures are found almost every day in the creeks and rivers of south Alabama. The finds include Basilasaurus, an extinct whale that is the state fossil of Alabama. Barnum Brown, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History, set out for Montana, having promised officials of the museum that he would \"get them a dinosaur.\" Four months later, he returned with the skeletons of nine huge dinosaurs, about 80,000,000 years old, that he had dug up near Billings, Mont. He also had the remains of a reptile 185,000,000 years old that he had disinterred near Cameron, on the Colorado River, in Arizona. He found an arrow point in a cave 50 miles from Carlsbad, N.M., that he believed supported his theory that men had inhabited the North American continent 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.
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Alabama once 'sweet home' for dinosaurs
Ice Age animals have been found throughout Alabama, ranging from large mammoth teeth to fossilized horse teeth and giant crocodile teeth. More than half of Alabama was covered by the ocean millions of years ago, and large sharks, cretaceous fish and giant mosasaurs were prevalent in these waters. Remains of those creatures are found almost every day in the creeks and rivers of south Alabama. The finds include Basilasaurus, an extinct whale that is the state fossil of Alabama. Barnum Brown, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History, set out for Montana, having promised officials of the museum that he would \"get them a dinosaur.\" Four months later, he returned with the skeletons of nine huge dinosaurs, about 80,000,000 years old, that he had dug up near Billings, Mont. He also had the remains of a reptile 185,000,000 years old that he had disinterred near Cameron, on the Colorado River, in Arizona. He found an arrow point in a cave 50 miles from Carlsbad, N.M., that he believed supported his theory that men had inhabited the North American continent 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.
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CHECK IT OUT
[Barnum Brown] discovered the T. rex in 1900. The original T. rex fossils are housed in the British Museum of Natural History. Scientists believe that \"Barnum\" fossils may actually be from that same dinosaur!
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Psst, wanna buy a dinosaur part?
Casts made of the bones appear to match the remains housed in London, said Thomas Lindgren, director of natural history for the auction house. The bones, found in 1995 in the same area as Brown's original discovery, include teeth and portions of the fearsome dinosaur's forearms and feet. The offering of the partial skeleton marks only the second time a T. rex has come up for public auction, according to Bonhams & Butterfields.
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