The mystery of the mammoth bones
by James Giblin
Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."
Museum curatorsJuvenile literaturePaleontologistsDinosaursArtistsBonesNatural historyMastodonsBiographyMastodonPaleontology, juvenile literaturePeale, charles willson, 1741-1827