Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) [Illustration: CHARLES H. STERNBERG. ] American Nature Series Group IV. Working with Nature THE LIFE OF A FOSSIL HUNTER BY CHARLES H. STERNBERG WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1909 Copyright, 1909, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY _Published, February, 1909_ THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS RAHWAY, N. J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE I wish to call the attention of the reader of my story “The Life of a Fossil Hunter” to the fact that I am under obligations especially to Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President and Curator of Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has supplied me with many of the most beautiful of the illustrations that illumine these pages and has assisted the work in many ways. I would also express my gratitude to Miss Margaret Wagenalls of New York, who edited the manuscript; to Prof. Dunlap of the Kansas State University, for his kindly criticisms; and to Dr. W. K. Gregory, Lecturer on Zoology at Columbia University, whose untiring efforts have brought the book to its present form. I hope it may awaken a wide interest in the study of ancient life, and I thank my friends everywhere who are contributing to that end. CHARLES H. STERNBERG. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, _January, 1909_. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN xi I. EARLY DAYS AND WORK IN THE DAKOTA GROUP OF THE CRETACEOUS 1 II. FIRST EXPEDITION TO THE KANSAS CHALK (1876) 32 III. EXPEDITION WITH PROFESSOR COPE TO THE BAD LANDS OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (1876) 61 IV. FURTHER WORK IN THE KANSAS CHALK (1877) 99 V. DISCOVERY OF THE LOUP FORK BEDS OF KANSAS AND SUBSEQUENT WORK THERE (1877, 1882–1884) 120