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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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Paleontologist James H. Madsen Jr. talks about dinosaur discoveries in Western Colorado and Utah. Madsen'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.
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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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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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James Jensen, a paleontologist at Brigham Young University, discusses dinosaur discoveries in Dinosaur National Monument and elsewhere along the Colorado-Utah border. He also talks about an internal system of support, which he designed, that revolutionized the way dinosaur fossils were displayed in museums. Jensen’s lecture was part of a series on dinosaurs presented by the Museums of Western Colorado in 1982. This recording is made available via...
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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.