title: Dinosaur Hunters: Eccentric Amateurs and Obsessed Professionals
author: David Spalding
description: Like an ongoing detective story, this fascinating and detailed survey by museum specialist Spalding details the rewarding global quest for dinosaur fossils over the past 150 years in terms of field techniques, major researchers, significant discoveries, and changing interpretations of these extinct reptiles. From early finds by William Buckland, Gideon Mantell, and Friedrich von Huene to the present hypotheses of Robert Bakker, John Horner, and Dale Russell, Spalding clearly shows that the search for dinosaurs is a human adventure filled with both personal tragedies and scientific surprises. Special attention focuses on Archaeopteryx, Iguanodon , and Coelophysis; the Cope-Marsh rivalry and the incredible successes of the Sternbergs; and explorations in the Nemegt Valley of the Gobi Desert and at Tendaguru in South Africa. Unfortunately, site maps and time charts are not included. Highly recommended for all science collections. --James Birx, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, N.Y.<br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Acknowledgments
  
  
  Thank
  
  
  you to Justin Robert Young for his patient help during this entire
  
  
  process and being the ideal creative sounding board. I’m indebted
  
  
  to real life dinosaur hunter Jack Horner, who also showed me
  
  
  superhuman patience with my silly questions. If T.R. Westwood is
  
  
  based in part on anyone, it would be Jack and my father, another
  
  
  great outdoorsman and lover of science. Anything that may remotely
  
  
  resembles science was influenced by the time I have spent in
  
  
  Yellowstone over the years with great scientists like Jack, Matt
  
  
  Ridley, David Sands and others. For that experience I am indebted to
  
  
  my good friend Gerry Ohrstrom.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Table of Contents
  
  
  #### Acknowledgments
  
  
  #### Prologue
  
  
  #### Chapter 1
  
  
  #### Chapter 2
  
  
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