Expedition to the John Day River in 1878: An Excerpt from Life of a Fossil Hunter
	Quantity in Basket: None Code: 11673 Price: $4.95 Author: Charles H. Sternberg Member Price: $4.21 Features: Paperback. 2001. 28 pp. 8 black and white historical photos. Map and glossary. 7 x 8.5 in.
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Charles H. Sternberg (1850-1943) was a young man of 28 when he came to look for fossils near the John Day River, early in his 70-year career as an internationally acclaimed fossil hunter. When he came to Oregon in 1878, he was working for Edward Drinker Cope, one of the most prolific and important paleontologists of all time. In fact, Sternberg had been on another Oregon mission during 1877, when Cope sent him to search for fossils in an Ice Age lake bed southwest of the John Day region. Sternberg named the site Fossil Lake. The llama, horse, dog, beaver, and other animals he found there were probable descendants of older species he found among the colorful John Day claystones the following summer. Read about this fascinating account in this slim, easily readable volume about a pivotal episode in the life of one of the most important contributors to American paleontology.