Giant Bones Challenged 18th-Century Intellectuals

Cincy Post ^ | Dan Hurley

[shield]

bfl

[ken21]

well,

anything’s possible.

first time i heard that one.

thanks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was watching a morning talk show years ago and the guest was Louis L’Amour. It was then that he talked about elephants in the Americas in the 1500’s.

I also read a newspaper interview in which he voiced the same views. He said he was going to write a novel about it. I don’t know if he did as he died not long after.

[Renfield]

That’s a great park. Dad took me there when I was 6 or 7 years old—I remember gazing at football-sized Mastodon teenth with wonderment.

[Quick Shot]

Hey....they are still out there. They hide really well in trees. My dog barks at them all the time, you have to know where to look.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, would love to visit that park.

[Dustbunny]

Louis L’Amour, we love the movies they make from his books.

[Sawdring]

as well as other giant animals for which they had no names (eventually named giant ground sloth, the moose ox, flat headed peccary, etc.)

Does the author mean Musk Ox? If there is a Moose Ox, maybe I haven't seen every Discovery Channel show on antiquity for the last 22 years.

[blam]

Moose Musk ox.

[yhwhsman]

He said he was going to write a novel about it

I know he included it in one of his novels about the first Sackett to explore America, it may have been called Jubal Sackett.

[dforest]

Believe me, Rosie O’Doughnuts remains are not a challenge that anyone would spend much time on.

The brain matter was always missing. There is a very small cavity in the head area.

[yhwhsman]

From what I've heard, Louis L'Amour put a lot of research into the information he put in his stories, so if he included elephants (mammoths probably) it was because he had found pretty solid evidence for it.