Born on February 12, 1873, Barnum Brown was an explorer from the very beginning. His love of dinosaurs brought him to New York City, where he went to work for the American Museum of Natural History. His job was to search for dinoausr fossils. He became one of the best dinosaur finders, and many of his discoveries are in the museum.

From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History. When Barnum Brown unearthed the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, it forever changed the world of paleontology. Henry Fairfield...

Relates, in graphic format, the story of the discovery of the first Tyrannosaurus Rex remains by Barnum Brown in 1902 and how that discovery shook up the scientific world.

Recounts the life and fossil discoveries of Barnum Brown, the paleontologist who, in 1908, discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton that had ever been found.