The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones : And How it Was Solved

In 1801, giant bones were found on a farm in New York, and no one knew what they were.

Dinosaurs had never been heard of, and the Bible stated that nothing the bible created could die out.

At the age of 60, Charles Willson Peale, founder of the first American Natural History Museum, assembled the first mastodon skeleton - and changed the face of science forever.

This book tells his story.