Bone Cabin

Bone Cabin. . Harold J. Cook, son of James H. Cook, built this homestead cabin in the early 1900s. He called it East Agate, or "the lower ranch." Fearful that the Carnegie Museum was about to claim the land, his homestead established ownership rights for the Cook family. The cabin was used as the base camp for numerous research teams conducting digs on the ranch from 1910 to 1923. Harold worked with many of the world's leading paleontologists at his "bone cabin.", The Bone Cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been restored to its 1923 appearance., Captions , Lower Left: The Miocene Epoch fossil discoveries at Agate Springs Ranch were unmatched in the world. The Museum, Amherst College, and the American Museum of Natural University of Nebraska, the Carnegie History, among others, conducted excavations at the ranch. , Middle Left: Albert "Bill" Thomson, field paleontologist for the American Museum (1911-1923), with his wife (left) and sister-in-law. The professional relationship between Harold Cook and Bill Thomson developed into a forty year family friendship. , Upper Right: The Bone Cabin in 1910. The wagon ruts lead to the quarries on University and Carnegie Hills. The long shack behind the cabin housed the American Museum of Natural History paleontologists.