by Dan Grenard | Jul 4, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda |
Capt. Felch Sarah and her brothers Emerson and Ned grew up hearing the story of Dead Man’s Cañon, an amazing story of her father Marshall, the heroic Capt. Felch in the story. As a mother, she in turn told it to her and Charles’s children;...
by Dan Grenard | Jul 3, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda |
Sarah’s Descendants First off, we will call Sadie her official name starting in this chapter because that is what her family and descendants did. In 2006 the hundred year anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906 was planned in Canon City and the focus on...
by Dan Grenard | Jun 10, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The Women’s Relief Corps and the Grand Army of the Republic Marshall’s legacy as an important dinosaur excavator is a story that we can tell because of the paleontology work he did for Othniel Marsh also for Charles Gilmore who took Marshall’s...
by Dan Grenard | May 24, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The image above by Dr. Kenneth Carpenter is a scientific view of what the Marsh Felch Dinosaur Quarry looked like about 152 million years ago. It is shown in comparison to what it looks like today. The quarry site today represents layers of inter-bedded...
by Dan Grenard | Apr 11, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
Professor Marsh relied extensively on field excavators like Marshall Felch out west while back home at the Peabody Museum of Natural History he needed fossil preparators, illustrators, and paleontologists to complete a solid identification of a species. The Peabody...
