

Bones in the White House: Thomas Jefferson's Mammoth
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Illustrator: Jamey Christoph
Thomas Jefferson: Third president of the United States. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Obsessive prehistoric mammal hunter?? It’s true! In this little-known slice of American history, see Thomas Jefferson as never before!
In the late 1700s, America was a new nation, with a vast west that held age-old secrets: Bones! Massive tusks and enormous animal skeletons were being discovered and Thomas Jefferson—politician AND scientist—was captivated. What were these giant beasts? Did they still roam on American soil? Jefferson needed to find out. Funding explorers, including the famed Lewis and Clark, Jefferson sought to find a complete prehistoric mastodon skeleton—one which would advance the young science of paleontology, but would also put this upstart young country on the world stage. Follow along on the incredible journey—full of triumphs and disappointments, discoveries and shipwrecks, ridicule and victory.
Note about Thomas Jefferson. Note about mammoths and mastodons. Note about Charles Willson Peale’s mastodon fossils. Bibliography. Further reading. Full-color ink illustrations colored digitally.
ISBN: 9780525646082
JLG Release: Apr 2020
Book Details
ISBN
9780525646082
First Release
April 2020
Genre
Nonfic
Dewey Classification
569
Trim Size
11" x 9 1/2"
Page Count
40
Accelerated Reader
N/AScholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
Library edition with trade jacket added
Publisher
Doubleday
Potentially Sensitive Areas
None
Topics
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Mastodons, Fossils, Extinction (biology), Paleontology, White House (Washington, DC), Nineteenth-century US history, Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827),