Fivemile Creek, SD Under a gentle breeze the expedition makes twenty miles stopping about six miles below the present-day Snake Creek bridge. Along the way, they collect fossilized bones from a plesiosaur, an aquatic dinosaur.
A 45 Foot Petrified Fish Bone[1]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus
Photo by J. Dinkel. See more at the British Museum of Natural History.
Monstrous Large Fish
we landed and saw lying on the banks on the South side of the River, the Bones of a monstrous large Fish, the back bone of which measured, forty five feet long.
—Joseph Whitehouse
Hunting on Shore
Sergt. Pryor who walked on Shore to day joined us informed us that he Saw a large Salt Spring S S 1½ miles from the river, & killed one Buffalow, Corpl. Worvington [Warfington] of the pearogue [pirogue] walked the afternoon on S. S joined us also killed 2 Buffalow
—John Ordway
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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