For Want of Wings
For Want of Wings In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. More than a century later, Russell's…
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For Want of Wings
In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. More than a century later, Russell's great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor's forgotten expedition. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles.
On her first trip across the Colorado Rockies to the fossil bed site near Russell Springs, Kansas, Hunting brings along her then twenty-six-year-old daughter. Part detective history, part memoir, For Want of Wings is Jill Hunting's captivating account of her journey into prehistory, national history, and family history.In her quest to piece together fragments of her family's past, Hunting ends up crisscrossing the United States, from California to Connecticut. When the book opens, mother and daughter are both at
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