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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.
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
VI. EXPEDITION TO THE OREGON DESERT IN 1877 144
VII. EXPEDITION TO THE JOHN DAY RIVER IN 1878 170
VIII. FIRST EXPEDITION TO THE PERMIAN OF TEXAS IN 1882 205
IX. EXPEDITIONS IN THE PERMIAN OF TEXAS FOR PROFESSOR COPE (1895–1897) 230
X. IN THE RED BEDS OF TEXAS FOR THE ROYAL MUSEUM OF MUNICH (1901) 244
ROCKS OF LARAMIE BEDS ON SOUTH SCHNEIDER CREEK, CONVERSE CO., WYOMING 16
WEATHERED ROCKS AND LARAMIE BEDS NEAR SOUTH SCHNEIDER CREEK 16
MUSHROOM-LIKE CONCRETION KNOWN AS PULPIT ROCK 17
FOSSIL LEAVES OF _Sassafras dissectum_. (After Lesquereux.) 20
FOSSIL LEAVES. _a_, UNOPENED LEAF NODULE. _b_, NODULE OPENED TO SHOW FOSSIL LEAF. _c, d, e, f_, VARIOUS FORMS OF FOSSIL LEAVES 21
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM DR. LESQUEREUX TO THE AUTHOR 24