Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-174) and index
Geologic setting -- Source of salt and health -- Indian accounts of great buffalo -- Gathering the bones -- Animal incognitum -- Thomas Jefferson takes an interest -- A question of tusks -- William Goforth’s stolen specimens -- William Clark’s bountiful collection -- The faunal list evolves -- Other mammoth changes -- Agents of extinction.
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