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Charles H. Sternberg (1850–1943)

Author of The Life of a Fossil Hunter

3 Works 56 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: Charles Hazelius Sternberg, 1850-1943 C. H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

Image credit: Image from The life of a fossil hunter (1909) by Charles Hazelius Sternberg

Works by Charles H. Sternberg

The Life of a Fossil Hunter (1990) 39 copies

Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada : A Sequel to the Life of a Fossil Hunter (1917) 16 copies, 1 review

Expedition to the John Day River in 1878 1 copy

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Canonical name: Sternberg, Charles H.
Legal name: Sternberg, Charles Hazelius
Birthdate: 1850-06-15
Date of death: 1943-07-20
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Education: Kansas State University
Occupations: fossil collector
amateur paleontologist
Relationships: Sternberg, Charles M. (son)

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Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer… by Charles H. Sternberg

First-person account of fossil hunting in Canada, roughly contemporaneous with Roy Chapman Andrews in USA/China. Inspirational, accurate.

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First published in 1917 (1)

Statistics

Works: 3
Members: 56
Popularity: #291,557
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 10

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