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| Contents |
Remembering "Toppy," my grandfather / by Rhoda Knight Kalt -- Charles R. Knight : a wildlife artist grows in Brooklyn -- It's all happening at the zoo -- Obsessed with heads and horns -- Buffalo dusk -- Elephant palace in the Bronx -- An artist among the scientists -- Cats -- The tiger -- Hoofed animals -- Horses -- The world of birds -- Extinct birds -- Deep-sea drama -- On drawing animals -- Cousins beneath the skin -- Animal moods and psychology -- A date with destiny -- Henry Fairfield Osborn -- Dinosaurs -- Brontosaurus -- Allosaurus -- Stegosaurus -- Tyrannosaurus -- How I reconstruct extinct animals -- Extinct mammals -- La Brea Tar Pits -- Meaner than old King Kong -- Hanging by a thread -- Before the dawn of history -- Florida's saber-toothed cats -- Wit and whimsy -- The artist as critic -- Cave men and cave paintings -- Ice Age -- Mammoths on parade -- Was this the first man? -- A starry Knight -- Preserving Knight's legacy -- A dream of Dinoland Park -- How the dinosaurs escaped. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011009743 |
| ISBN | 9780810984790 |
| ISBN | 0810984792 |
