02973cam a22003373u 4500 77814 UtSlPG 20260610134813.0 m cr n 260607r20261917utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 17009596 UtSlPG en iso639-1 QE Sternberg, Charles H. (Charles Hazelius), 1850-1943 Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-01-29 deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada" by Charles H. Sternberg is a field memoir and scientific account written in the early 20th century. It follows Sternberg and his sons as they hunt, extract, and prepare dinosaur fossils in Alberta’s badlands and across the American West, weaving adventure with hands-on methodology and museum work. Readers can expect specimen stories, practical collecting techniques, and vivid reconstructions of Cretaceous environments. The opening of the book presents a sequel to Sternberg’s earlier autobiography, thanking colleagues and setting out his aim to recount recent, highly successful seasons in Canada. He recalls landmark finds—“mummified” duck-billed dinosaurs with preserved skin, superb Triceratops skulls, and giant Cretaceous fishes—while describing grueling quarry work, transport feats, and a cyclone that destroyed a major skull. Museum visits to Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, and Yale frame his evolving ideas, including a shift toward viewing hadrosaurs as swimmers. He details mounting a massive Titanotherium at Ottawa’s Victoria Memorial Museum and the improvised techniques that made it possible. Moving to Alberta, he sketches Drumheller’s geology, evokes bayous teeming with dinosaurs, and narrates the discovery and plaster-jacketing of a remarkably complete hadrosaur later mounted in Ottawa. A river run to Steveville leads to a notable Gorgosaurus with gastralia, whose “slab” presentation in matrix he chooses after consulting leading paleontologists. The section closes with additional crested duck-bill finds and a candid look at the painstaking lab work such fragile fossils demand. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Lawrence: Charles H. Sternberg, 1917 Dinosaurs Paleontology -- Alberta https://archive.org/details/huntingdinosaurs00steruoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77814 118534 118534