| Top--A vintage 1923 press-release photograph of "the man of the Miocene Barstow hour," so to speak--H. S. Mourning, he who in 1911 first discovered fossil bones in the now world famouns middle Miocene Barstow Formation, on property he had claimed in what's colloquially called Fossil Bone Basin, Mojave Desert, California. Bottom--The reverse side of the 1923 press-release photograph of H. S. Mourning. Photographs courtesy an individual who goes by the cyber-name historicimages-gallery. |