Narration about the celebrated American explorer Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden via Wired.
...(For dinosaur fans, it’s worth noting that Hayden found several dinosaur teeth during his trip along the borders of the Missouri in what is now recognized as the Judith River Formation, including the first remains of ceratopsians to be described. At the time, though, Hayden had no idea that so many dinosaurs were waiting to be found there. He sent the paltry collection of teeth to Leidy for description, but confided that he did not find the strata of the Judith to be as interesting as those of the geologically younger White River where an abundance of impressive fossil mammals had been found.)
Hayden was the “Man Who Picks Up Stones Running” – a name said to be given to him in 1853 by the Sioux who lived in the vicinity of the deposits...
