TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randall,David K.
TI  - The monster's bones: the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world 
SN  - 9781324006534
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Brown, Barnum.
KW  - Osborn, Henry Fairfield,
KW  - American Museum of Natural History
KW  - History
KW  - Tyrannosaurus rex
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Paleontologists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Natural history museum curators
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index; Prologue: The center of the world -- A life that could contain him -- A world previous to our -- Scraping the surface -- Creatures equally colossal and equally strange -- Empty rooms -- A real adventure -- Finding a place in the world -- The uttermost part of the Earth -- Big things -- A very costly season -- The bones of the king -- New beginnings -- The hardest work he could find -- A new world -- The monster unveiled -- A second chance -- The monster's tracks
N2  - From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History; When Barnum Brown unearthed the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, it forever changed the world of paleontology. Henry Fairfield Osborn saw  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 suggested a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone at the time had imagined. As the public turned 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 turned dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. Randall journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, with a cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys. He reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -