ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Battle to the Death | [Frontispiece] |
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| Dragon Slain by Regulus | [20] |
| Scylla of the Seven Heads | [20] |
| Merman from the Mediterranean | [20] |
| The Dragon of the Drachenfels | [20] |
| Monsters Thought Real by the Ancients | [20] |
| The Unicorn in China | [42] |
| Stegosaurus, the Super-Dreadnought of Old | [50] |
| The Largest Creature that Ever Flew | [72] |
| A Flying Nightmare of Olden Time | [72] |
| Sea-Serpent Attacking a Pirate Ship | [82] |
| The Fiercest Monster that Ever Lived | [84] |
| The Sharp-Toothed Death | [86] |
| The Jurassic Sea-Serpent | [86] |
| Combat Between Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus | [88] |
| Sea-Serpent Swallowing Sailors | [96] |
| The Most Authentic Sea-Serpent | [96] |
| Waiting for the Load | [158] |
| Roaring at the Weight | [158] |
| Rising, Still Protesting | [158] |
| Ready for Desert March | [158] |
| A Camel Being Loaded with Half-Ton Fossil Cases | [158] |
| At the Temple of Qasr-el-Sagha | [194] |
| Across the Libyan Desert | [194] |
| Zeuglodon, the Primitive Whale | [220] |
| Climbing to the Fossils | [228] |
| Finding a Sea-Cow Skeleton | [228] |
| The Four-Horned Giants at Bay | [232] |
| Into the Heart of Mexico | [242] |
| Carrying Shell of Glyptodont | [242] |
| Pteranodon, Climbing for a Swoop | [250] |
| Finding the Eobasileus | [256] |
| The Eobasileus or Loxolophodon | [256] |
| The American Mastodon | [270] |
| The Siberian Mammoth | [270] |
| The Mammoth Tusk He Found | [276] |
| Uncovering a Frozen Mammoth | [276] |
| Finding the Eohippus | [292] |
| Eohippus, the Four-Toed Horse | [292] |
| Finding the Mesohippus | [294] |
| Mesohippus, the Three-Toed Horse | [294] |
| Smilodon, the Sabre-Tooth Tiger | [302] |
| Museum Camp in Wyoming Bad Lands | [308] |
| The Largest of the Titanotheres | [308] |
| Herd Crossing Red Deer River, Alberta | [312] |
| Museum Boat Camp on Red Deer River | [312] |
| Opening (Rear Tent) to Moropus Quarry | [322] |
| Inside the Moropus Quarry, Agate, Neb. | [322] |
| The Dryptosaurus, a Giant Carnivorous Reptile | [328] |
| Unearthing a Saurolophus Skeleton | [330] |
| Unearthing a Diplodocus Hind Limb | [330] |
| Brontosaurus in his Native Swamp | [332] |
| Trachodon, a Duck-Billed Dinosaur | [338] |
| A Brachiosaur, Largest of All Land Creatures | [346] |
THE MONSTER-HUNTERS
THE MONSTER-HUNTERS
CHAPTER I
KILLING THE LAST DRAGON
“Father, I want a dragon!”
The shrewd old merchant lowered the evening newspaper he was diligently reading, and looked over it at his son.
“All right, my boy,” he said with a smile; “go ahead and get one.”
“But I mean a real dragon!”
“About how big, Perry?”