Other than his colleagues Carl Akeley and Roy Chapman Andrews, the closest thing to a real-life Indiana Jones. A life-long employee of the American Museum in New York, he collected dinosaurs and other vertebrates around the world, including Como Bluff in Wyoming (1897-1900), Hell Creek in Montana (1902, 1907, 1908), the Red Deer River badlands in Alberta (1909, 1910), the island of Samos (in this case mammals), and around the world. He completed a famous series of dinosaur mounts at the museum, and despite publishing little scientific research wrote successful popular accounts of his exploits.
