CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1   Chinle Times

2   "Quite a Forest of Petrified Trees"

3    Petrified Forest National Monument

4    Scientists and the Petrified Forest in the Early Twentieth Century

5    Custodians and Proprietors

6    The Ideal National Monument

7    After the War: Mission 66 to National Park and Beyond

8    Recent Science at Petrified Forest

Epilogue: The Future of the Past

Notes

Bibliography

Index