Level 1.
1. Where did their excavation sites range from?
2. What happened to the species they discovered? Were they saved?
3. How many species did they discover?
4. What happened to Cope and Marsh after it happened?
5. What else was gained?
6. What was lost?
7. What was found at Como Bluff?
8. How many years did the debate occur for?
Level 2.
1. Why did Cope and Marsh, once good friends, turn against each other?
2. Who won the battle? Why?
3. How did they win the battle?
4. Why were other scientists pushed out of the competition?
5. Who was more respected?
6. What caused Marsh to be so greedy and selfish?
7. Why didn't they work together?
8. Did the Guilded age cause this debate?
Level 3.
1. Is violence always the result of an argument?
2. Did the positive results of the battle make up for the destroyed bones?
3.Can positive things come from an argument?
4. Does it matter to the rest of the world who won?
Assignment 2
Working Thesis:
How did this fued advance science and was it worth the artifacts that were lost due to rush?
Given that much was lost during this feud, was the knowledge gained worth the destruction caused by Cope and Marsh?
Assignment 3
Level 1.
1. Where did their excavation sites range from? story
2. What happened to the species they discovered? Were they saved? story
3. How many species did they discover? story
4. What happened to Cope and Marsh after it happened? story
Level 2.
1. Why did Cope and Marsh, once good friends, turn against each other? story
2. Who won the battle? Why? story
3. How did they win the battle? story
Level 3.
1. Is violence always the result of an argument? big picture
2. Did the positive results of the battle make up for the destroyed bones? big picture
3.Can positive things come from an argument? big picture
4. Does it matter to the rest of the world who won? big picture
Assignment 4
Context | Story-Line | Cause/Effect/ Change over Time | Significance/ Continuity over Time | |
1870-1880 | Fossil butte | Apatosaurus | dinosaurs | |
Great bone rush | Cope | Bone wars | Kemmerer dinosaur museum | |
Gilded age | marsh | Early conservation | Oil prospecting in Wyoming | |
Westward expansion | Bone wars | Paleontology | ||
cowboys |
Assignment 6
Process Paper
I decided to do my project on the Bone Wars this year. At first I couldn’t decide what to do but my friend showed me a book that he had on them and I was immediately interested. We were required to do our project in Wyoming and I had no interest in any of the other topic suggestions that I brainstormed. The Bone Wars were unique in the way that they related to Wyoming. They had very little to do with the Indian wars and all the other cowboy things going on during that time. That was the reason that I picked them over the rest of my ideas.
The Bone Wars are related to the theme because the entire event was an ongoing argument between Cope and Marsh. Many successful artifacts were unearthed due to this debate. Also many of them were destroyed because of their selfish and greedy ways of winning the argument.
For the start of my research, I have looked in a large assortment of books. I have found that the books give a much more in depth description of what happened. The online sources that I have found just seem to paraphrase each other. The geological museum in Laramie proved much of what my partner and I had inferred. It also showed us how many dinosaurs that they actually found. There was also a PBS video on the Bone Wars that gave many specific descriptions about what occurred at each quarry site.
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"Dinosaur Bone War: Cope and Marsh's Fossil Feud"
by Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
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"Dinosaur Bone War: Cope and Marsh's Fossil Feud"
by Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
