How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World By Tracey Fern. Pictures by Boris Kulikov. Farrar Straus Giroux. $17.99. Ages 5 and up. Like the circus showman he was named for ...

The case had set up a clash between parents’ ability to direct their children’s education and schools’ authority over ...

Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex ... and Brown's relationships with the many women in his life form a strong undercurrent through the book. Brown deeply loved his first wife, ...

Barnum Brown was marked for greatness from a young age. Born on a Kansas farm on February 12, 1873, the third child of Clara and William Brown went weeks without a name.

BARNUM: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Robert Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $28. P.T. Barnum was one of America’s first major celebrities, but history hasn’t been exactly kind to him. If you ask ...

Almanac: T-Rex discoverer Barnum Brown 02:31. And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 12th 1873, 144 years ago today … the day fossil hunter Barnum Brown was born in ...

Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex Famous for his fossil-hunting exploits—and a notorious lothario to boot—Brown helped form the foundation of early 20th century ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jessica Bruder BARNUM An American Life By Robert Wilson On May 21, 2017, Ringling Brothers ...

Evesun - Chasing Barnum. OXFORD – It was not the fossilized remains of giant lizards that drew a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History to Oxford ...

Expedition Notes: In The Field With Fossil Hunter Barnum Brown Fossils were a hot commodity in the early 1900s, dazzling both the public and scientists. Museum vying for the treasures hired ...

Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex. Considered by many to be the greatest fossil hunter of the 20th century, Barnum Brown traveled across the world collecting dinosaur bones ...