by Dan Grenard | Aug 1, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The Uintah Basin In 1908, Sarah and her husband Charles Zimmerman loaded up all their belongings, five young children, a host of farm animals, and moved from southeast Colorado to the Uintah Basin in northern Utah. The Uintah Basin ranges from about 4,500 to about...
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...
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...
