Download or read book The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones written by James Giblin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon."