Lewis Lindsay Dyche
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Lewis Lindsay Dyche(March 20, 1857 – January 20, 1915) was anaturalistand also the creator of the Panorama of North American Plants and Animals, which was featured in the Kansas Pavilion at the 1893World's Columbian Exposition.[1]His taxidermy work is housed at TheUniversity of Kansas' Natural History Museum inLawrence, KS.Also at KU is the U.S. Army's lone survivor on the field of theBattle of Little Big Horn,a Horse, Comanche, which the Army asked Dyche to stuff for their display.[2]
Dyche was born in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia (then in Virginia).[3][4]
He died inTopeka, Kansason January 20, 1915.[5]
Dyche gave his name to theLiberty shipSS Lewis L. Dyche
Bibliography[edit]
- Edwords, Clarence E. Camp-fires of a naturalist: the story of fourteen expeditions after North American mammals: from the field notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche. New York: Appleton, 1893.
- Sharp, William and Peggy Sullivan. The dashing Kansan: Lewis Lindsay Dyche: the amazing adventures of a nineteenth-century naturalist and explorer. Kansas City, Mo.: Harrow Books in association with the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas, c1990.
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References[edit]
- ^https://biodiversity.ku.edu/exhibits/the-panorama/
- ^https://biodiversity.ku.edu/exhibits/comanche/
- ^Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912).Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc.Standard Publishing Company. pp.556.
- ^Wilson, Guy West (1917)."LEWIS LINDSEY DYCHE".Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science.28:355–362 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^"Pref. Lewis Lindsay Dyche Died Yesterday in Topeka".Lawrence Journal-World.February 21, 1915. p. 1.RetrievedMarch 3,2020– via Newspapers.com.
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