56 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



work of transferring the boxes to Medicine Bow 

 began. It took many trips of the wagon before this 

 task was accomplished. Back and forth in the blaz- 

 ing sun, went the sturdy horses patiently pulling the 

 load that contained the skeleton of a creature which, 

 long before any kind of a horse had lived, was mon- 

 arch of this very region. Finally all the boxes were 

 safely packed in a freight car, and then the Dinosaur 

 started on his long journey. 



The train sped swiftly eastward, through a country 

 far different from anything in existence during the 

 Dinosaur's lifetime, and when, at last, the engine 

 pulled the car containing the bones of this ex-monarch 

 into the station of the city which was thereafter to be 

 his home, he had traveled more than two thousand 

 miles. 



Although the Dinosaur was so unlike any animal 

 which any person had ever seen alive, the men into 

 whose charge the rocks containing his bones were 

 given when they reached the museum knew a great 

 deal about how he had looked in life. Soon they 

 were at work getting the pieces of fock in order so 

 that the bones could be taken from them. All 



