The Dinosaur Hunters
Charles H. Sternberg and sons
Charles Hazelius Sternberg, 1850 - 1943, was born in New York State, later moving to Iowa and Kansas. In 1880 he married Anne Reynolds, and together they had 3 sons
Sternberg was a farmer with a keen interest in fossils and vertebrate palaeontology. He wrote 2 books
He collected dinosaurs with Cope in the 1870s, and then worked freelance, selling the specimens that he found. Together with his sons he formed something of a family dynasty of dinosaur hunters, collecting very many high quality specimens.
In 1908 Charles and his sons found the 'Trachodon mummy', in Converse County, Wyoming. In 1912 Sternberg concentrated on the Drumheller / Red Deer River region of Alberta to hunt fossils for the Geological Survey of Canada and the British Museum, in (friendly) competition with Barnum Brown - the 'Second Great Dinosaur Rush'.
Charles Mortram Sternberg joined his father, along with his brothers, in the Canada expedition, and worked for the Geological Survey of Canada as a palaeontologist and biostratigrapher. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and he helped to set up the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta in 1957/58.