Auld Lang Syne: Riggs arrives at Rio Gallegos
January 2, 2013
Ninety years ago today, Elmer S. Riggs and his small party, including George F. Sternberg and John B. Abbott, arrived at Rio Gallegos, Argentina to begin a long fossil hunting expedition in southern Patagonia. On that day, Riggs wrote one of his longest and most memorable journal entries, most of which is excerpted below:
Rio Gallegos.
Sunday Dec 31. 1922.
By Paul D. Brinkman, Assistant Director of the Paleontology & Geology Research Lab
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