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Dinosaur Highway: A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park (Chisholm Trail Series)
Laurie Jasinski
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Description for Dinosaur Highway: A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park (Chisholm Trail Series)
Paperback. Offering a history of Dinosaur Valley State Park, this book interweaves millennia of geological time with local legend, photographs, and anecdotes of the people who have called the valley home. Num Pages: 192 pages, 40 photos, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HD; WNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth's Cretaceous layer. It wouldn't be until a spring day in 1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these stony traces of an ancient past.Young Adams' first discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River Valley, near the small community of Glen Rose, Texas, came more than one hundred million years after the reign of the ... Read more
Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth's Cretaceous layer. It wouldn't be until a spring day in 1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these stony traces of an ancient past.Young Adams' first discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River Valley, near the small community of Glen Rose, Texas, came more than one hundred million years after the reign of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653754
SKU
V9780875653754
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About Laurie Jasinski
LAURIE E. JASINSKI is the author of Hill Country Backroads: Showing the Way in Comal County (TCU Press, 2001). She has written park histories for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and numerous features for popular Texas magazines. She and husband Gary S. Hickinbotham live in New Braunfels.
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