Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days

Marsh's monograph on the dinosaurs he named during the Bone Wars, among them Brontosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Full osteological descriptions with the skeletal restorations that shaped how dinosaurs have looked ever since.

Othniel Charles Marsh

A bone by bone study of Stegosaurus built on the museum specimens that still serve as the reference description for the genus. Gilmore also works out how the plates and tail spikes were arranged.

Charles Whitney Gilmore

A field account of the seasons Sternberg and his sons spent quarrying duckbilled and horned dinosaurs along the Red Deer River. It is what fossil collecting actually looked like before mechanized excavation.

Charles H. Sternberg