STRANGE FOSSIL FIELDS OF WYOMING— A GEOLOGICAL WONDERLAND 



—VAST PREHISTORIC BURYING GROUNDS— A LAND RICH 



IN FOSSIL TREASURES— PETRIFIED BONES 



FOR A THOUSAND MUSEUMS. 



Wyoming is the geological wonderland of the world. Within the confines of the big 

 western State are the most extensive and fertile fossil fields known. Its sagebrush plains 

 are, indeed, one vast, prehistoric burying ground; and Science has summoned them to give 

 up their dead. 



Wyoming is the resting place of the petrified bones of the largest land animals that ever 

 lived. After already bequeathing to geological science the rarest of fossil treasures, the State 

 is again writing a strange chapter in the world's geological history by unearthing the petrified 

 bones of the most colossal animal ever taken from the earth's strata. This stone monster 

 was a dweller in the Jurassic age — a Dinosaur, measuring nearly 130 feet in length, and being 

 perhaps thirty-five feet in height at the hips and twenty-five feet at the shoulders — an animal 

 so terrible in size that its petrified skeleton alone is believed to weigh more than 40,000 pounds. 



To the geological department of the Wyoming State University is due the credit of 

 this wonderful discovery. Assistant W. H. Reed, of the Department of Geology, made 



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