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Building an ark for Texas : the evolution of a natural history museum / Walt Davis.
Van Pelt Library Q105.U62 .D38 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Walt, 1942- author.
- Series:
- W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series ; no. 54.
- W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series ; number fifty-four
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science--History.
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science--Biography.
- Natural history--Study and teaching--Texas.
- Natural history.
- Science museums--Texas--Dallas.
- Science museums.
- Natural history--Study and teaching.
- History.
- Texas--Dallas.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Misadventure underground
- War of extermination: A war of extermination
- The woodsman and the judge
- Building the ark: The man from Denver
- Centennial celebration
- Art and science merge
- Masters of illusion
- The man from Dallas
- The bird man and the hunter
- In pursuit of the Holy Grail
- The man from Virginia
- Paleontology takes center stage
- Upstairs, downstairs, good news, and bad
- Becoming the Perot: Duel on the Nile
- A pharaoh comes to town
- The man from New York
- The woman from Dallas
- Becoming the Perot
- Opening day.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Davis, Walt, 1942- author. Building an ark for Texas
- ISBN:
- 9781623494421
- 1623494427
- OCLC:
- 942745108
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