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Exhumation of a Mastodon by Charles Willson Peale, 1801.
Credit: The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Peale's 1801 excavation of a mastodon skeleton on a Hudson Valley farm drew international attention. Convinced that "the movements of nature are in never ending circles," Jefferson expected Lewis and Clark to find mastodons and other extinct animals still living in the American west.
Credit: The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Peale's 1801 excavation of a mastodon skeleton on a Hudson Valley farm drew international attention. Convinced that "the movements of nature are in never ending circles," Jefferson expected Lewis and Clark to find mastodons and other extinct animals still living in the American west.
