Professor Caroline Winterer

Yeah, well, again, taking us into the American Midwest in the dry landscape of the Dakotas of Nebraska, sort of the upper Midwest, right under Canada, Americans begin to build the transcontinental railroads in the decades after the Civil War.

Yeah, well, again, taking us into the American Midwest in the dry landscape of the Dakotas of Nebraska, sort of the upper Midwest, right under Canada, Americans begin to build the transcontinental railroads in the decades after the Civil War.

We can imagine it as a kind of zipper relinking the continent that had been shorn in two by the Civil War, that in order to build the railroads, you need to bring the geologists. And the geologists, of course, are going to find bones of various kinds.

We can imagine it as a kind of zipper relinking the continent that had been shorn in two by the Civil War, that in order to build the railroads, you need to bring the geologists. And the geologists, of course, are going to find bones of various kinds.

We can imagine it as a kind of zipper relinking the continent that had been shorn in two by the Civil War, that in order to build the railroads, you need to bring the geologists. And the geologists, of course, are going to find bones of various kinds.

In especially the Badlands of the Dakotas, where you have these deep gullies, you find on top of the dinosaur bones, suddenly the dinosaurs are gone. vanished. And you have a new kind of creature, which turns out to be mammals. And they find these enormous, crazy mammals, like giant rhinoceroses on drugs, you know, things the size of rhinos, but with crazy horns all over their skulls.

In especially the Badlands of the Dakotas, where you have these deep gullies, you find on top of the dinosaur bones, suddenly the dinosaurs are gone. vanished. And you have a new kind of creature, which turns out to be mammals. And they find these enormous, crazy mammals, like giant rhinoceroses on drugs, you know, things the size of rhinos, but with crazy horns all over their skulls.

In especially the Badlands of the Dakotas, where you have these deep gullies, you find on top of the dinosaur bones, suddenly the dinosaurs are gone. vanished. And you have a new kind of creature, which turns out to be mammals. And they find these enormous, crazy mammals, like giant rhinoceroses on drugs, you know, things the size of rhinos, but with crazy horns all over their skulls.

They find tiny little monkeys and every kind of creature in between. So being Victorians, everything is the age of this and the reign of that. So they christened this the age of mammals, and they realized that the age of the dinosaurs had seeded to the age of mammals.

They find tiny little monkeys and every kind of creature in between. So being Victorians, everything is the age of this and the reign of that. So they christened this the age of mammals, and they realized that the age of the dinosaurs had seeded to the age of mammals.

They find tiny little monkeys and every kind of creature in between. So being Victorians, everything is the age of this and the reign of that. So they christened this the age of mammals, and they realized that the age of the dinosaurs had seeded to the age of mammals.

and that they were going to show the world once again that American mammals were bigger than any other mammals around the world, but also that significantly some of the mammals, like the horse that had been associated with the European conquest of the world, had in fact originated in the Americas.

and that they were going to show the world once again that American mammals were bigger than any other mammals around the world, but also that significantly some of the mammals, like the horse that had been associated with the European conquest of the world, had in fact originated in the Americas.

and that they were going to show the world once again that American mammals were bigger than any other mammals around the world, but also that significantly some of the mammals, like the horse that had been associated with the European conquest of the world, had in fact originated in the Americas.

So they find the little Eohippus, the dawn horse, Eo means dawn in Greek, the first camels, all of these various ungulates, animals of the plains, kind of the steps that circled the globe 50 million years ago, they had their birthplace in the Americas.

So they find the little Eohippus, the dawn horse, Eo means dawn in Greek, the first camels, all of these various ungulates, animals of the plains, kind of the steps that circled the globe 50 million years ago, they had their birthplace in the Americas.

So they find the little Eohippus, the dawn horse, Eo means dawn in Greek, the first camels, all of these various ungulates, animals of the plains, kind of the steps that circled the globe 50 million years ago, they had their birthplace in the Americas.

This was so important for Americans to claim because one of the things that Europeans loved to say was that the new world was inferior because its land was not fertile. Why would God have wasted fertility on the new world? And Americans could say, but no.

This was so important for Americans to claim because one of the things that Europeans loved to say was that the new world was inferior because its land was not fertile. Why would God have wasted fertility on the new world? And Americans could say, but no.

This was so important for Americans to claim because one of the things that Europeans loved to say was that the new world was inferior because its land was not fertile. Why would God have wasted fertility on the new world? And Americans could say, but no.