Dinosaur Highway : A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park

by Jasinski, Laurie E.

• ISBN13: 9780875653754
• ISBN10: 0875653758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

"In her colorul history of Dinosaur Valley State Park, Laurie Jasinski interweaves millenia of geologrical 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

The Changing Face of North Central Texas	p. 1
Fountains of Youth	p. 13
Making Tracks	p. 29
Work and Play on Paluxy "Creek"	p. 51
The Dinosaur Hunter and the Texas Village	p. 61
In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs	p. 69
The Fight for Dinosaur Valley	p. 91
To Capture a Park - Landscape and Riverscape and Trailway	p. 107
Growing Pains for Dinosaur Valley State Park	p. 121
Maintaining the Dinosaur Highway	p. 139
"The Dinosaur Waltz"	p. 157
Notes and Other Trackways	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 190
Index	p. 201
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