La Brea Story

Most school children in Los Angeles get taken on a field trip here . Its centrally located , and there's no cost to walk by the place. If you're lucky they also let you go visit big museum . And maybe bring a sack lunch to eat on the grass . Published by Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California The Division of Education in Cooperation with the Earth Sciences Division 1969. Illustrated by Mary Butler, Skeleton drawings by Frances Runyan. 46 page book bound with rectangular staples. Illustrated. Asphaltum pitch spring story in Rancho La Brea a working tar pit study site at LACMA of prehistoric animal bones. Describes life as it was 40,000 years ago around the La Brea asphalt pits, where prehistoric animals met their deaths in the tar pits. Briefly visits life in the same area at several points in the modern era, from Indians at the time of Columbus to twentieth century excavation of the pits near Los Angeles...Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shippeLa Brea Story- -Gretchen Sibley- Illustrated by Mary Virginia Butler, Frances Runyan- Contributor -Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History- - Publisher W. Ritchie Press with the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, -1969- - Length 46 pages- –Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles bib 2137 PELLIGRINO RMO out