Roswell Field's Dinosaur Footprints, 1854-1880

dc.contributor.author	Herbert, Robert L.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-15T20:49:32Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-15T20:49:32Z
dc.date.created	2013
dc.date.issued	2013-07-15
dc.description	Collaborators: Sarah Doyle, Joel Fowler, Lynda Hodson Mayo, Pamela Shoemaker	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Roswell Field (1804-1882), a farmer of Gill, Massachusetts, supplied sandstone dinosaur tracks and fossil fish from the Connecticut River Valley to scientists, collectors, and institutions, from 1854 to 1880. Like his predecessor Dexter Marsh (1808-1853), he received only perfunctory thanks from his clients, and has been lost to history. He was nonetheless the first to uncover new species of animals who made Early Jurassic tracks. This biography is based upon his unpublished correspondence with scientists (Ebenezer Emmons, Charles U. Shepard, John Collins Warren, and others), transcribed in the Appendix. These letters give details of uncovering and selling the sandstone slabs in the years when dinosaurs and Jurassic fish were being rapidly identified. Field’s activity is additionally documented from tax and property records.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10166/3286
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Dinosaurs	en_US
dc.subject	Fossils	en_US
dc.subject	Roswell Field	en_US
dc.subject	Dexter Marsh	en_US
dc.subject	Edward Hitchock
dc.subject	Pioneer Valley
dc.title	Roswell Field's Dinosaur Footprints, 1854-1880	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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