14 Story of a Monster Fish 



a great Titanotherium, I had discovered near 

 Seaman's Old Ranch in the Seaman Hills. The 

 fall of the same year, my sons> Charlie and Levi, 

 and I with our assistant Mr. Jasperson, explor 

 ed a new region in the Oligocene, on Plum Creek, 

 25 miles North East of Lusk, Wyoming, Nio- 

 brara County, a few miles south of the Lance 

 Creek beds. We found an old river bed with its 

 flood plain exposed on either side. It was won- 

 derful indeed to gaze on the dry bed, that had 

 been cemented together into solid conglomerate, 

 of gravel sand, water-worn fossil wood and bones, 

 while the old flood-plains were as real, (though 

 solidified now), as if they were flooded, but yes- 

 terday. This flood-plain had been scarred, how- 

 ever, by ravine and canyon, ridge and bluff, that 

 had bi-sected and thus exposed more of the con- 

 tents than in the days high water covered it. 

 Scattered everywhere was the richest harvest of 

 fossil mammals I had ever seen, before or since. 

 On the 11th of September, I secured the now 

 famous skeleton of a huge Titanotherium, al- 

 ready mentioned. George and I mounted it the 

 next winter in the Victoria Memorial Museum 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada. The first 

 great mammal to be mounted there. It stands 

 6 feet high at the hips, is 11 feet long to drop 

 of the tail, 4 feet wide at the hips. Over the 

 flood-plain of the ancient river bed, that cut 

 diagonally across the country, and in the Sea- 

 man Hills, we secured great numbers of Oreo- 



