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Dinosaur Highway - A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park (Paperback)
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Dinosaur Highway - A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 760
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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 dinosaurs. During this prehistoric
era, herds of lumbering ""sauropods"" and tri-toed, carnivorous
""theropods"" made their way along what was then an ancient
""dinosaur highway."" Today, their long-ago footsteps are
immortalized in the limestone of the riverbed, arousing the
curiosity of picnickers and paleontologists alike. Indeed, nearly a
century after their first discovery, the ""stony oddities"" of
Somervell County continue to draw Saturday-afternoon tourists,
renowned scholars, and dinosaur enthusiasts from across the nation
and around the globe.In her careful and colorful history of
Dinosaur Valley State Park, Jasinski deftly interweaves millennia
of geological time with local legend, old photographs, and quirky
anecdotes of the people who have called the valley home. Beginning
with the valley's ""first visitors"" - the dinosaurs - Jasinski
traces the area's history through to the decades of the twentieth
century, when new track sites continued to be discovered, and
visitors and locals continued to leave their own material imprint
upon the changing landscape. The book reaches its culmination in
the account of the hard-won battle fought by Somervell residents
and officials during the latter decades of the century to secure
Dinosaur Valley's preservation as a state park.
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