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...
by Dan Grenard | Mar 14, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
A Gigantic Jigsaw Puzzle “In the ‘eighties, still another collector whose work was of great value to Marsh was M. P. Felch, who had helped Mudge and Williston at Canon City in 1877. When Marsh’s appointment as vertebrate paleontologist to the United States...
by Dan Grenard | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
Oberlin Ohio JoAnn and I walked the gorgeous campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio while looking into their archives on May 26, 2015. Oramel Lucas attended college there, both before and after his days of digging dinosaurs in Canon City. We were...
by Dan Grenard | Feb 6, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
There are only a handful of drawings and photographs of the ranch when the Felch family lived there. The drawing above by Loretta Bailey presents an inviting picture of Marshall, Amanda, Sadie, Ned, and Emerson getting the wagon packed on a lovely morning. The ranch...
by Dan Grenard | Jan 9, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
Grinders, Claws, Darwin, and Dinosaurs Paleontologists and geologists had a pretty solid understanding of our planets remarkable history by the mid 1800’s. This is lightly touched on in a background story called Grinders, Claws, Darwin, and Dinosaurs. The...
