Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River
Charles H. Sternberg
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.
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