ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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THE PICTURESQUE BAD LANDS OF HELL CREEK 
Photographed by L. A. Huffman from Panorama Point, twelve miles south of the Missouri River. 
fossil skull, seemingly as big as the skull of an 
Indian elephant. There it lay, free and clear, 
on the surface of the blasted ground, but alas! 
so weathered that its own father could not have 
recognized it. I could think of nothing that it 
might have been save mv first impression— 
elephant. 
For the moment the mule deer objective was 
forgotten. Max Sieber was surprised by our 
interest. “Had any fossil hunters been in that 
country in his time?” “No, not one.” “Have 
you ever found any other fossil remains than 
this?” “Yes, I have some queer things at the 
cabin that I will give you—since you are so 
interested.” 
Sieber gave me some broad rib fragments, 
and a stone horn of a kind that I could not 
name, all of which I took back to New York. 
On reaching home I lost no time in reporting 
to Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn that we 
had discovered a new fossil bed, and in advising 
him to send to it a good collector. As to the 
born-like thing lie said immediately: 
“That is the front horn of a Triceratops!” 
The great three-horned dinosaur! It was 
one of the thrills of my life. 
At the earliest practicable moment an ex¬ 
perienced fossil hunter, Mr. Barnum Brown, 
was sent to Hell Creek, and to Max Sieber. 
That locality was thoroughly searched and soon 
yielded an astounding result. 
It is the way of a fossil hunter in a land of 
bluffs and buttes to search closely along the 
bases of walls and steep slopes for fragments 
of fossil remains that have weathered out and 
fallen down. At the base of the conical butte 
directly across the creek from Sieber’s cabin, 
and forming a part of the steep bank opposite 
the water-hole, the hunter found fragments of 
fossilized bones. It was evident that they had 
fallen from the steep side of the butte, higher 
up. Following this trail, about half way to 
