1831-1899

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1831-1899

The kite that bridged two nations

Homan Walsh and the first Niagara suspension bridge
Presents a picture book on the true story of Homan Walsh, a young man who loved to fly kites and became the first man to fly a kite across Niagra Falls and connected by kite-string the United States and Canada.

The fossil feud

Marsh and Cope's bone wars
2007
Recounts the rivalry between two competing paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, and how their bitter feud eventually destroyed their careers.

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