Professor Lakes once showed me the exact spot where he found his first specimen.
Mr.Lucas, teaching his first term of a country school that spring in Garden Park near Canyon City, as an amateur botanist was interested in the plants of the vicinity.

Rambling through the adjacent hills in search of them, in March, 1877, he stumbled upon some fragments of fossil bones in a little ravine not far from the famous quarry later worked for Professor Marsh.

He recognized them as fossils and they greatly excited, not only his curiosity, but the curiosity of the neighbors.

He had heard of the late Professor Cope and sent some of the bones to him, who promptly labelled them _Camarasaurus supremus_.
The announcement of these discoveries promptly brought Mr.David Baldwin, Professor Marsh's collector in New Mexico, to the scene.

Only a few months previously he had discovered fossil bones in the red beds of New Mexico, the since famous Permian deposits.