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Introduction: Patriotism and Prehistoric Nature

1. The Giant of Claverack in Puritan America

2. The Antediluvian World as a "New Found Land"

3. The Mystery of the Siberian Mammoth

4. Big Bone Lick: "where elephant bones are found"

5. The American Incognitum in Paris

6 The Anatomy of a Carnivore

7. "Monstrous Grinders" in the American Revolution

8. The Docrtine of Monsters Reborn

9. American Degeneracy and White Supremacy

10. The Savagery of Prehistoric Nature

11. "Monarch of the Wilderness"

12. The Elephant with Claws

13. Exhumation of the Monster

14. The Mastodon of Nations

15. The Mastodon in the Age of Dinosaurs

Afterword: The Myth of Wild Nature


READ American Monster

Discover the curious link
between patriotism and prehistoric nature!


© 2003 Paul Semonin



BONES

The breast-shaped knobs
on its grinders led many
people to believe the animal
was a carnivore that devoured
buffalo, deer and elk.





The tusks were remounted
pointing downward
to emphasize the animal's
carnivorous nature.