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		<title>Boone County Public Library to Host Lewis &amp; Clark Exhibit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boone County Public Library is hosting a traveling exhibition about the famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.&#160; The pair is best known for their cross-country expedition to the Pacific Ocean.&#160; However, the explorers also visited Big Bone Lick in separate trips. The exhibition titled “Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country” runs from [...]


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		<title>Letter from Thomas Jefferson Regarding Big Bone Lick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1807, Thomas Jefferson sent General George Rogers Clark to Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, to collect fossils.&#160; The site of an ancient salt lick, Big Bone Lick had once attracted Pleistocene-era mammoths, giant ground sloths and giant bison, which had died near the salt lick when they became trapped in the surrounding bogs, leaving a [...]


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		<title>Interview with Stanley Hedeen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WFPL News 89.3 FM radio interviews Stanley Hedeen, author of the book Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology.&#160; Hedeen discusses what was once considered North America’s greatest paleontological treasure, capturing the attention of George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Stanley Hedeen is professor emeritus of biology and former dean of the College [...]


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		<title>The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book, “The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America” by Dr. Keith Stewart Thompson, gets its start in Big Bone Lick.&#160; Quoting the official book description: “The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure.&#160; [...]


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		<title>Paleontologic Investigations at Big Bone Lick State Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1963, the US Geological Survey and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln published a report titled, “Paleontologic Investigations at Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky: A Preliminary Report.”&#160; The Big Bone Lick area in Kentucky is the first widely-known collecting locality for vertebrate fossils in North America.&#160; The study investigated Big Bone Lick for further faunal [...]


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		<title>Lewis &amp; Clark at Big Bone Lick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from the National Park Service: Meriwether Lewis traveled to Big Bone Lick in October 1803 on his way west to join William Clark and the men assembling in Louisville for the Corps of Discovery.&#160; Lewis sent a box of Big Bone specimens back to President Jefferson. Jefferson devoted much time to the study of [...]


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		<title>Big Bone Lick Fossils at Behringer-Crawford Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to the Behringer-Crawford Museum can view excavated specimens from Big Bone Lick State Park in a display called “Kentucky on Ice.”&#160; From its brochure: “Trek through Kentucky during the last glacial period and learn about Ice Age geology and the great beasts of the Ice Age.&#160; Experience the thrill of holding a Wooly Mammoth [...]


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		<title>Big Bone Lick: This Spot has Acquired a Notoriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the book, Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology, by Stanley Hedeen: In 1828, while zoologist William Cooper was collecting specimens at Big Bone Lick, Cincinnati physician Daniel Drake proudly wrote of the location’s widespread reputation: “This spot has acquired a notoriety that is not even limited to the United States.&#160; Its name [...]


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		<title>Thomas Jefferson &amp; Ben Franklin Studied Fossils at Big Bone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Bone Lick is one of the most famous paleontological sites in North America.&#160; Vast numbers of bones were collected throughout the mid 1700&#8242;s and transported to museums throughout the world. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Captain William Clark to excavate bones from Big Bone Lick for scientific study.&#160; This made Big Bone Lick [...]


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		<title>Talk by Stanley Hedeen on Big Bone Lick Paleontology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Bone Lick State Park &#8212; the most famous, fossil-rich area in the Cincinnati region &#8212; gave the world the first evidence of several extinct species, including the American Mastodon.&#160; Stanley Hedeen, author of a new book on the subject, Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology (2008), brings the history and paleontology of [...]


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