Thomas Jefferson, the American Mastodon and Nation Building
What links one of our nation’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, the fossil finds of a giant beast, the American Mastodon, and the Early American fight against Old World elitism to bolster the legitimacy of the American experiment?
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