# The life of a fossil hunter

Author: Sternberg, Charles H. (Charles Hazelius), 1850-1943; Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57178

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+life+of+a+fossil+hunter+Sternberg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Fifteen years of my early life were spent in Otsego County, New York, at dear old Hartwick Seminary, where my father, the Rev. Dr. Levi Sternberg, was principal for fourteen years, and my grandfather, Dr. George B. Miller, a much-loved, devout man, professor of theology for thirty-five. The lovely valley of the Susquehanna, in which it stands, lies five miles below Cooperstown, the birthplace of the Walter Scott of America, James Fenimore Cooper, and my boyhood was spent among scenes which he has made famous. Often my companions and I have gone picnicking on Otsego Lake, shouting to call up the echo, and spreading our tablecloth on shore beneath the very tree from which the catamount was...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/4/index.md)
- [letter I ever received.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fossil-hunter-57178/chapters/10/index.md)