Known as the greatest dinosaur collector of all time, Barnum Brown helped the American Museum of Natural History establish its world-class fossil collection. Museum Research Associate Lowell Dingus and Chair of the Division of Paleontology Mark Norell recently traced Brown’s extraordinary career from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites to the halls of the Museum in the book Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex.
Watch a video featuring footage from the Museum’s film archives: