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Colleagues,
I'm trying to identify some old paleo
quarry photographs among others recently donated to our museum. This is in
support of my recently started project; see my 1999 abstract: "Relocating
the Lost Dinosaur Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada".
Jour. Vert. Paleo., 19(3):80A.
We are not entirely sure these
unidentified photos represent a digsite in Alberta, as they were in a photo
album among mounted photographs of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The
photographs show a small camp (crew size 2-3 maximum) with a sheepherders wagon
being used as a camp kitchen. One person appears to be William Kelly who worked
in Michigan, USA around this time. An older
man, mostly bald and with an ARTIFICIAL LEG also appears in camp and on site.
His right leg is missing ?below the knee and replaced with a wooden crutch-like
structure. He looks a bit like George Gaylord Simpson did in his older days.
These pics are dated roughly 1927. The quarry is small- maybe 15-20 feet across
and 10-12 feet high and the men are splitting a light colored slate or shale;
perhaps a leaf/fish locality?. The local topography is low hills with grass and
numerous equally-spaced small sagebrush-type bushes. It looks like so many
places I've seen in Idaho, Montana, southern Alberta, etc.
Any ideas?? I have to think there were not
many paleo-types hobbling around on an artificial leg in the Canadian/American
west in the 1920's!
Best,
Darren Tanke
Tech. I, Dinosaur Research
Program
Royal Tyrrell Museum
Drumheller, AB,
Canada
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