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UNCORRECTED PROOF Gilded h I e t Dinosaur I THE FDSSIL WAR BETWEEN CDPE AND MARSH AND THE E.D. Q.C. RISE DF AMERICAN SCIENCE A R K A N1 «J F" Gilded the Dinosaur Also by MarkJaffe And No Birds Sing UNCO REG PROOF T U E, the Gil d d e Dinosaur THE FDSSIL WAR BETWEEN COPE AND MARSH AND THE E.D. Q.C. RISE DF AMERICAN SCIENCE M A F3 Crown Publishers New York • 1 © Copyright 2000 by MarkJaffe All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying, recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without per- mission in writing from the publisher. Published by Crown Publishers,201 East 50th Street, New York,New York 10022. Member ofthe Crown Publishing Group. Random House, Inc. New York,Toronto,London,Sydney,Auckland www.randomhouse.com CROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark ofRandom House, Inc. Printed in the United States ofAmerica Design by Sue Maksuta Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jaffe,Mark. The gilded dinosaur : the fossil war between E.D. Cope —and O.C. Marsh and the rise ofAmerican science / by MarkJaffe. 1st ed. 1. Cope,E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1—897. 2. Marsh,Othniel Charles.—1831-1899. —3. Paleontologists United S—tates Biogr—aphy. 4. Fossils West (U.S.) Collection and preservation History 19th century. I. Title. QE707.C63J34 1999 560'.978'09034—dc2 99-3851 ISBN 0-517-70760-8 1098765432 1 First Edition My For Mother Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/gildeddinosaurOOmark — Acknowledgments Writing this book has been a journey both across the American west and" through American history. But whether on the road or locked deep in some archive, I was fortunate to have some savvy and patient guides. In Philadelphia, Carol Spawn at the Academy of Natural Sciences and Roy Goodman and Scott DeHaven at the American Philosophical Society were invaluable. In New York City, Barbara Mathe at the American Museum ofNatural History was a great help. Barbara Narenda assisted me in perusing the archives at Yale's Peabody Museum ofNatural History, and Bruce Kirby guided me through the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Some wonderful archivists and librarians also opened the West for me including Chelle Somsen at the South Dakota Historical Society, Daniel Davis at the University ofWyoming American Heritage Center, William Grace at the Kansas Historical Society, Barbara Day at the Colorado His- torical Society, and Brian Shovers at the Montana Historical Society. I also offer my special thanks to ThelmaJennings, who opened the Fort Wallace Museum just for me on a blustery and snowy day, and Cecil Sanderson, assistant superintendent at the Fort Bridger His—torical Site. I also had the advice offour prominent paleontologi—sts Peter Dodson, John Ostrom, David S. Berman, and Edward Deaschler who tried to pre- vent me from making any mistakes in the science. Robert Eveleth of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources was a tremendous help in reconstructing the history ofWestern mining, and Michael F. Kohl, head ofspecial collections at Clemson Uni- versity, clued me in to some excellent Smithsonian sources. A good part ofthe work on this book was done while I was Nieman Fel- low at Harvard University,and I offer my deepest thanks to Bill Kovach,the Nieman curator, for his support. Harvard historian Evertt Mendelsohn was kind and patient in tutoring me in how a historian looks at science, and Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan pushed, probed, and guided me in my word-smithing. When I finally s—tarted pounding out pages, three of my Philadelphia Inquirer colleagues Paul Nussbaum, John Fried, and Charles Layton Ml — MARK viii J A F F E were good-hearted enough to read them and given me sharp, but compas- sionate feedback. David Black, my agent, was supportive from the first casual pitch ofthe Cope and Marsh story to the finished manuscript. My thanks also to Crown Publishing, especially to Karen Rinaldi, the first editor to support this project, and to Robert Mecoy and Peter Fornatale for bringing the book to fruition. Finally, my deepest thanks and love to my first, best editor always, my wife, Sandy. Her careful reading ofthe manuscript made my work better as it always does.
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