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Mammoth in the Bull Ring. The existence of human life in the southwestern U.S. during the late glacial period was confirmed in 1927 with the discovery at Folsom, N.M. of chipped stone "Folsom points" between the fossilized ribs of an extinct bison. Ever since, archaeologists speculated whether "Folsom man," following the herds of bison, horses and mammoths, had migrated south. The first shred of evidence that he might have was a fossilized mammoth tusk turned up last summer in the excavation for Mexico City's new bull ring. The tusk bore a deep incision which, said the archaeologists, might...
...deep trench which carries Mexico City's sewage to the lowlands. According to Dr. de Terra, the soil in which the bones and stones were found was formed under a chill and rainy climate; it is his conjecture that this rainy period coincided with the last great glacial period in North America...
...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...
Mountains were John Muir's particular delight. Once he wrote: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever & all the morbidness that has been hooted at me have not dimmed my glacial eye, & I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing...
...covered the area between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse while the second expedition, starting in May of 1944, explored the country between Whitehorse and Fairbanks. The members of the party included Raup, his wife, and their two sons, S. K. Harris of Boston University, John H. H. Sticht, glacial geologist, and Frederick Johnson, archeologist...