Expedition to the John Day River in 1878: An Excerpt from Life of a Fossil Hunter Sternberg Charles H.
Expedition to the John Day River in 1878: An Excerpt from Life of a Fossil Hunter Sternberg Charles H. Charles H. Early in his career as an internationally acclaimed fossil collector, he came to…
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Expedition to the John Day River in 1878: An Excerpt from Life of a Fossil Hunter Sternberg Charles H.
Charles H. Early in his career as an internationally acclaimed fossil collector, he came to Oregon during the Bone Wars under direction from Edward Drinker Cope, one of the most prolific paleontologists of all time. Sternberg was a young man of 28 when he came to look for fossils near the John Day River.
military, and eastern Oregon settlers. Sternberg knew these early finds were exciting and important, as he worked the badlands in what would later be recognized as one of the most complete fossil records for the "Age of Mammals."His 1878 expedition coincided with an outbreak of armed conflict between several Northwest Indian tribes, the U. S. The region had been occupied for generations, yet Sternberg's stories take readers much further back in history, beyond what is measurable in human time scales.
His expedition explored the frontier beneath the surface of human events and
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