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M£DJCJN£ JIOCJC Pabliehed by the ■ tuiee t ef Carter County High School Bcalakft, Montana Zditor: Ireatha McCanieh Butineee Manageri Brace Shelden
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fOAEWOAD Ia thin pa M we pletur for you our activities of the past year In Carter countj high school. Our thw lo baaed on the Carter oeunty auseua. The hletory ef Carter county aaeeua began in the enaaer of 1904 when the first expedition for locating fossils was outfitted by Professor Uner 8. Higg of the field Museoa ef latural History of Chicago, Illinois. This trip aroused the interest of Septon Cody, Valter H. Peek DeLose Hall, who learned auoh about collecting, exeaTatlng and preparing fossils Tbs year 1933 was important in the history of the ■useoa. In August of this year partial reaalns of a giant earniTerous reptile, Tyrannasaarus Hex, was found by Prof- essor Vllllaa C. Hawley. Interest in fossil hunting was rapidly Increasing ansng Carter oeunty cltlsena. Os the different fossils wars prepared and placed on exhibition, a geological soeloty was organised and becane an incorporated ooeiety under the laws of the state of Montana on loroabsr 28, 193«. The alas of the olub wore to discover, excavat and preeerve fossils and any natural history spec la ess . . . th. Board of Irn to . of th. 0«r«.r county M«h «chool •Ml.tod U croup By I 1»' building ae headquarter for th society and providing a large rooa for display of epecinen . Ib 19S6 Dr. Oeerc. O Xord Sl pcoa of th kmnien Mueena of latural History, of lew Yexfc, and Mr. Albert C. Bklberllng, of Harlewtown, Montana, visited the auseua and while her discovered and collected the flret eaber- tsethed tiger skull that was ever found In Montana. In 1938 an expedition wa put Into th field, consist- ing of Mr. C. Ted Snyder of Mayor, Arisona, Mi Idella A. Kennedy of 8ydney, Montana, and Mr. and Mr . Valter H. Peck Phis expedition worked In the Badlands froa July until October and were fortunate in locating another of Montana1s pro-historic reptiles, the Trachadon. A very unusual specimen of prehistoric animal life wa found and collected by Mr. Vllllaa Vinkley and Mr. Valter H. Peck in 1940. Vsighing three or four tons, standing tan fast high and measuring 20 fast froa th tip of his boss to the end of his long tall, th pachycephalosanru is the first ef its kind to be found in the world. Heallsing the scientific Importance of this aniaal and the impracticability for acisntlste to study it here, Mr. Peck made arrangements for th Carter County Geological Society te present It to the American Museoa of latural History. Vhen the reaalns of the reptile had been recon- structed. It was discovered that it possessed an overslied done and a nine inch protective covering under which nestled a brain to saall a nan could hide It in hie hand. The laerlean Museoa of latural History tent a cast of the head back to the Carter county auseua, where it le one of the aost Interesting pieces on display. In 1946 th auseua was traneferred from the Geological Society to beooa Carter county property, although the Geological Society 1 still closely connected with it. During the years a fine collection of Indian relic and foeeile has accumulated. One of th more interesting finds was fragments of ancient Indian pottery that telle of a people who once lived her before the Sioux, Crow or Cheyenne tribes. The aaln source of thsse specimens is the Medicine Beck area north of Hkslaka.
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