Jill HuntingRecensioni
Autore di Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam
Recensioni
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Hunting uses the Yale expedition as an anchor point for this book, and goes off on all directions from there: a history of her family; how to travel in the West in 1872 (Marsh recommended his students read The Prairie Traveler), John Brown in Kansas, the Great Diamond Hoax, Lakota Chief Red Cloud, Hollywood costumers (she wanted information on the clothes people wore), early Denver photographers (she identified the studio where the photograph was taken) and encounters with Kansans (mostly friendly).
On the expedition, Thomas Russell found a fossil of Hesperornis regalis, a Cretaceous toothed bird. Hunting visits Yale Peabody museum and tries to find the original collection site with Dr. Michael Everhart of the Sternberg Museum (see Oceans of Kansas). Ironically, there’s not that much paleontological or geological information, but the pleasant writing and eclectic topics make up for it. A plates section, endnotes, and bibliography (but, annoyingly, no index). For more on fossil collecting in the 19th century West, see A Triceretops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming.