List of Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; 1. Chinle Times; 2. Quite a Forest of Petrified Trees -- 3. Petrified Forest National Monument; 4. Scientists and the Petrified Forest in the Early Twentieth Century; 5. Custodians and Proprietors; 6. The Ideal National Monument; 7. After the War: Mission 66 to National Park and Beyond; 8. Recent Science at the Petrified Forest; Epilogue: The Future of the Past; Notes ; Bibliography; Index