by Dan Grenard | Aug 6, 2018 | Background and Places
The illustration above was painted by Beth Zaiken and is on display at the New York State Museum located at the southern end of the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany New York. Beth was contacted by the museum to create background murals for...
by Dan Grenard | Apr 15, 2018 | Background and Places
The image above illustrates the magnitude of the disdain and contempt Professors Cope and Marsh had for each other based on articles and headlines from the 1890 New York Herald. Developed by an Austrian artist on Deviant art identified...
by Dan Grenard | Jan 1, 2018 | Background and Places
Heading West We know that Marshall traveled in a wagon train in the spring of 1866 first along the St. Joe Road, then the Great Platte River Road, and come into Denver on the Overland Trail. The St. Joe road can be approximated along any number of state highways...
by Dan Grenard | Apr 12, 2017 | Background and Places, Marsh Felch Dinosaur Quarry
George Felch Most information in this blog is paraphrased or quoted from a book published by the Seventh New Hampshire Veteran Association in 1896 entitled the Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion written by Henry Little. George Felch...
by Dan Grenard | Mar 20, 2016 | Background and Places, Marsh Felch Dinosaur Quarry |
Sarah “Sadie” Felch parents were Marshall Parker Felch and Amanda Matilda Felch, two civil war veterans. They were living in the pioneer town of Denver in 1867 about where where Cherry Creek meets the Platte River, an area today known as LODO or...
by Dan Grenard | Apr 3, 2015 | Background and Places, Blog |
The Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center is located at 612 Royal Gorge Blvd (U.S. Highway 50) in historic downtown Canon City. The Paleontology wing of this facility is on the second floor within the DeWeese Gallery. This gallery contains paleontology...
