Box 7
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Utah (Quarry), 1914-1918
File — Box: 7, Volume: 32
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the dinosaur quarry in Jensen, Utah. The entries in this diary are concerned primarily with the work at the quarry.
2 October 1914--"Where the bones begin they are piled up almost like a dam. In some places they must be 5 or 6 ft. thick."
7 October 1914--"It would be a great triumph if we could get a skeleton of Allosaurus."
14 October 1914--"Things opening...
Dates:
1914-1918
Utah, 1915-1917
File — Box: 7, Volume: 33
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the dinosaur quarry in Jensen, Utah.
25 October 1915--"I had surmised that we might find 'a nest' of skeletons here and it still looks favorable.
"I am agreeably surprised to find the bones in such good shape. They are better than I had thought that they were--in fact it looks as if they would leave little to be wished. And when we realize how rare they are! So rare that if...
Dates:
1915-1917
Utah, 1916-1917
File — Box: 7, Volume: 34
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at dinosaur quarry in Jensen, Utah. Diary entries are scattered and terse.
- 6 June 1916--"Hot yet cool breeze part of time. Have got door to cabin at quarry hung and moved telephone into it."
- 13 June 1916--"Hot and dry. Tired out and trying to rest a little. . . . Began Register at quarry. Had 8 visitors or more for a starter."
Dates:
1916-1917
Utah, 1916-1920
File — Box: 7, Volume: 35
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at dinosaur quarry in Jensen, Utah. Diary entries are concerned primarily with Douglass's Dinosaur Ranch.
6 June 1916--"This is the third book of this series each successor larger than the preceding. I wish to make each better than the last ....
"It has been a peculiar spring. We have not experienced anything like it here before and I do not remember such a spring anywhere...
Dates:
1916-1920