Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex, Lowell DIngus And Mark A. Norell

c. 2010

I'm not sure what to say about this book. If you question whether to read this book, read the Epilogue first, then start again at Chapter Nine, page 169. My hunch is you will be hooked and will go back and read the rest of the book.

Prologue

One: Child of the Frontier (1873 - 1889)

Two: Student ... of Sorts (1889 - 1896)

Three: Apprentice Extraordinaire (1896 - 1898)

Four: To Land's End: Patagonia (1898 - 1900)

Five: To the Depths of Hell Creek (1900 - 1903)

Six: Love (1903 - 1906)

Seven: Loss (1906 - 1910)

Eight: The Canadian Dinosaur Bone Rush (1910 - 1916)

Nine: Cuba, Abyssinia, and Other Intrigues (1916 - 1921)

Ten: Jewels from  the Orient: Raj India (1921 - 1923)

Eleven: Perils and Pearls Up the Irrawaddy: Burma (1923)

Twelve:  Samos: Isle of Intrigue (1923 - 1925)

Thirteen: Ancient Americans Hunting Bison? Birds as Dinosaurs? (1925 - 1931)

Fourteen: Digging -- and Flying -- for Dinosaurs: Howe Quarry and the Aerial Survey of Western Fossil Beds (1931 - 1935)

Fifteen: Toward the Golden Years: The Mystery Track-Maker and the Glen Rose Trackway (1935 - 1942)

Sixteen: Brown as a Spy, Movie Consultant, and Showman at the World's Fair (1942 - 1963)

Epilogue: perhaps the best "chapter" of the book.