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Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada

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Front. Ideal Picture of Belly River Series Time by Deckert, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Fig. 1. “Dinosaur Mummy” found by George F. Sternberg 4

Fig. 2. “Here the skin is preserved with its complex arrangement of minute scales” 5

Fig. 3. In 1909 Charles M. Sternberg discovered this magnificent Triceratops 8

Fig. 4. Portheus molossus, Cope 9

Fig. 5. Another skeleton George found, to add to the trophies of his hunt 9

Fig. 6. Mr. C. W. Gilmore’s wax figure of his ideal Diplodocus carnegii 20

Fig. 7. A huge Titanotherium 21

Fig. 8. Trachodon annectens, Marsh 26

Fig. 9. Traveling on Red Deer River, Alberta 27

Fig. 10. Steveville at the mouth of Berry Creek, Alberta 48

Fig. 11. Charlie’s carnivore as he found it 49

Fig. 12. Preparing Charlie’s Carnivore 52

Fig. 13. Loading Carnivore with triplex tackle 53

Fig. 14. Quarry after Carnivore was removed 56

Fig. 15. Sternberg’s camp three miles below Steveville, Alberta 57

Fig. 16. Skeleton of Lambe’s Stephanosaurus 66

Fig. 17. Sections of Stephanosaurus skeleton 67

Fig. 18. “I climbed the rugged buttes and ridges” 70

Fig. 19. Pillars cut from the solid rock 71

Fig. 20. Outlying Butte over 300 feet high 76

Fig. 21. Levi founded a crested dinosaur 77

Fig. 22. Excavation after taking out Charlie’s Stephanosaurus 82

Fig. 23. Charlie’s new Trachodon 83

Fig. 24. Prepared skull of Gryposaurus, Lambe, Kritosaurus, Brown 88

Fig. 25. The strata of clay thins out to nothing 89

Fig. 26. Discovery of George’s Chasmosaurus, (Ceratops) 94

Fig. 27. George’s Chasmosaurus, lying in quarry 95

Fig. 28. Levi wrapping Chasmosaurus 100

Fig. 29. Chasmosaurus Quarry 101

Fig. 30. George preparing his Chasmosaurus 104

Fig. 31. Skull of Chasmosaurus restored by Weber 105

Fig. 32. Sternberg’s camp three miles below “Happy Jack Ferry” 108

Fig. 33. Styracosaurus in the bottom of gorge 109

Fig. 34. Top view of Styracosaurus, prepared by C. H. Sternberg 112

Fig. 35. Charlie’s Centrosaurus in the rock 113

Fig. 36. Putting Irons on crest of Centrosaurus 120

Fig. 37. George at work on C. H. Sternberg’s Centrosaurus, (Monoclonius) 121

Fig. 38. Centrosaurus, discovered by Charles H. Sternberg 130

Fig. 39. Limb of Gorgosaurus, mounted by C. M. Sternberg 131

Fig. 40. Quarry of George’s Plated Dinosaur 140

Fig. 41. Packing up a Loveland Ferry 1915 141

Fig. 42. Badlands of the Red Deer River below Steveville 150

Fig. 43. Badlands near Steveville. Photograph by Levi Sternberg 151

Fig. 44. Badlands near Steveville. Notice cross bedding 160

Fig. 45. Quarry with skeleton of Corythosaurus lost at sea 1916 161

Fig. 46. Charlie letting his plated dinosaur down 150 feet 170

Fig. 47. Hauling out fossil 171

Fig. 48. Urn-like Mass of Rock 180

Fig. 49. Egyptian Sphynx-like rock 181

Fig. 50. Dog Cr. Montana. Notice effects of vulcanism 190

Fig. 51. Badlands near Cow Island, Montana 191

Fig. 52. Badlands of the Missouri River 200

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