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nice start

Two chapters in. I see why they casted Ryan Gosling for this role in the film adaptations

The Johnson chapter ain’t it

I haven posted updates. My bad.

I have since that the author is trying to redeem Cope negative traits in this book. While he does sound like a great I think cope shortcomings should have been mentioned.

Pro cope narrative marketing?

“With pastel band of pink and black rock, the land had a stark and desolate beauty”

This experience of mine is another instance of the fact that the human brain forgets nothing, and will yield up everything when the right kind of stimulus is applied.

Reading this side by side with Fossil hunters got to be a interesting experience. This whole book covers Copes fossil expedition to badlands in Montana. I think so far the event are a little different from Sternberg in his original account, but I do see how the character are a little over exaggerated compared to to the real counters parts. Cope feels like a good guy base of what Crichton and Sternberg write. But irl?

“If I have found, scattered along a wash, the bones of some fossil fish or reptile, as soon as we have pitched camp and eaten our meal … we both return with pick and shovel, and, carefully saving each weathered fragment, trace the remains to where the rest of the bones lie in situ, as the scientists say — that is, in their original position in their rocky sepulcher.”

I like how it fells like a western.

“He sent me J. C. Isaac, from Illges Ranch, Wyoming; … for Mr. Isaac had but a short time before seen five of his companions 48shot down and scalped by a band of marauding Indians … Consequently, he saw an Indian behind every bush;”

I am reading this book side by side with Dragon Teeth and I find the overlap of non fictional characters with the real in this book. I think Dragon teeth take inspiration.

“Cheyenne boasted one schoolhouse, two theaters, five churches, and twenty gambling saloons. A contemporary observer wrote that “gambling in Cheyenne, far from being merely an amusement or recreation, rises to the dignity of a legitimate occupation the pursuit of nine-tenths of the population, both permanent and transient.”

“The cinnamon sends forth its perfume beside the sassafras… Many other beautiful plant forms grace the landscape, but the glorious picture is only for him who gathers the remains of these forests, and by the power of his imagination puts life into them.”

I find it intriguing how some early palaeontology are related to the Wild West. But I have doubts that the writer is a non fiction writer, feels academic.

1/30th

I really liked this quote: “Mr. Lewis was amused with this new pupil; photography was not a rich man's pursuit, but rather a shifty business for people who lacked the capital to embark on more prestigious livelihood.”


I like the historical addition. Sometime the author goes on about the moment then historical fact. Smt I see in Jurassic park.

29/01

Pretty interesting start so far. The set up is pretty good, I wonder what will happen next. Idk if to treat this as western or smt on part with Jurassic park.