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Lance Eriksen discusses dinosaur discoveries and paleontology in eastern Utah and Western Colorado. Mr. Eriksen’s lecture was part of a series on dinosaurs presented by the Museums of Western Colorado in 1982. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*This interview was originally recorded on two audiocassettes. The...
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Al Look speaks to an unidentified audience about dinosaurs, mammals, and the geology and natural history of the Mesa County, Colorado area. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Al Look talks about the stegosaurus, brachiosaurus, and other dinosaurs discovered in fossil digs in Mesa County and Western Colorado. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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During an interview that was broadcast on KEXO radio, Al Look and Larry Leach discuss evidence of the Fremont and Basket-Maker Cultures at a dig in Paradox Valley. Bob Collins also interviews Look about finds at a dinosaur dig near Fruita, Colorado (28:53). Collins then interviews Look during a segment featuring Look as the Personality of the Week (42:17). This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project,...
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A lecture given at Regis College by Al Look, a Mesa County historian and amateur paleontologist. Look discusses the geology of Grand Junction, the Grand Mesa, and surrounding area. He also describes the multitude of dinosaur fossils found in this area. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Al Look talks about elements of Grand Junction, Colorado history and about local dinosaur finds. He also discusses newspaper printing presses in use at the Daily Sentinel and Durango Herald, and newspaper advertising. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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In an uncharacteristically short interview given at his 88th birthday party, Al Look tells local radio personality Bob Collins about helping to publish a comic newspaper at the University of Nebraska, about the dinosaur find in No Thoroughfare Canyon that led to his interest in archaeology, and about a dig on an Ancestral Pueblo culture site near Montrose, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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Chuck Lundy and interviewer Al Look talk about a Fremont Indian excavation in No Thoroughfare Canyon, about the archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington and her work at the Turner-Look Site in Utah, and about Native American fossil finds on Glade Park, Colorado. They also speak about Colorado National Monument founder John Otto, about dinosaur fossils discovered by “Dinosaur Jim,” the paleontologist James Jensen, and about dinosaur bones found by...
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In an interview on an unnamed radio station, Mike Mayfield, the former curator of the Museums of Western Colorado, talks about the importance of museums in a radio interview with Al Look. Al Look then discusses petrified dinosaur eggs found in Colorado on a radio show called the Local Scene. Look also talks about John Otto and the creation of the Colorado National Monument. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral...
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Al Look speaks to the Combined Women's Club of Grand Junction, Colorado about the geology of Western Colorado, dinosaur fossils found in the area, and about archaeological evidence of the ancestral Pueblo culture. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Amateur paleontologist Al Look speaks about dinosaur fossil discoveries in Delta County and on the Western Slope in a lecture for the Surface Creek Historical Society in Cedaredge, Colorado. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Longtime Fruita residents and photographers Will Minor and Lee Warner discuss their experiences in the Colorado National Monument and the surrounding areas of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. They also talk about meeting John Otto, and about Minor’s discovery of the rare Papilio Indra Minori butterfly on the Monument. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of...
