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The Legacy of the Mastodon (Nonfiction)

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Western Books

Keith Thomson, Yale University Press, $35, Hardcover.
If you like reading about the Old West, this is about as old as you can get! Here we have figures such as giant sloths, dinosaurs and other such critters which provide the storyline of this big book. Although Keith Thomson does generate some historical interest in the obscure wilderness adventures of the bone diggers and their advance with human Westward movement across


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