78 Hunting Horned Dinosaurs 



CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING HORNED DINOSAURS ON THE RED DEER 

 RIVER. 



Please, dear reader, return with me to the first 

 camp we made below Steve ville (Fig. 15). I 

 would like to tell you of our successful hunt for 

 horned dinosaurs, the reptiles that carry on their 

 shoulders the largest known skulls of any land 

 animal living, or dead. I had gone around the 

 flood plain to the mouth of a ravine below camp 

 and following it up to its head searching the de- 

 nuded exposures, on either side. Suddenly, T 

 stumbled on a couple of orbital horn-cores of a 

 new genus of these strange creatures. The 

 nasals and much of the face had been disintegrat- 

 ed by exposure to rain and frost; one complete 

 lower jaw and part of the other was in place, 

 however. With eager hands I used my little pick 

 and digger, cutting into the face of the cliff. The 

 horn-cores were pointed heavenward. I soon got 

 behind them and followed up the great crest that 

 projected backward into the rock, of which some 

 fifteen towered above; I needed help and return- 

 ed to camp a mile over the hills, for the boys, 

 George and Levi responded to my call. The rock 

 was thrown out and scraped away with team* and 

 scraper, tons on tons of it, my enthusiastic as- 



