Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

From the Fossil Hills Trail the Visitor Center is a ship in a sea of prairie grasses.
In the early 1900s, paleontologists unearthed the Age of Mammals when they found full skeletons of extinct Miocene mammals in the hills of Nebraska -- species previously only known through fragments. At the same time, an age of friendship began between rancher James Cook and Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota. These two unprecedented events are preserved and protected here... at Agate Fossil Beds.
Map showing location of park.
A man wearing a denim jacket is seated in front of a brick wall.
David Boye Scheduled to Present Music Inspired by Our National Parks
Musician and composer David Boye will present Music Inspired by Our National Parks at Scotts Bluff and Agate Fossil Beds National Monuments on September 14 and 15.
The visitor center sits in the middle of mixed grass prairie.
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Tipis and Fossil Hills represent the two subjects that Agate Fossil Beds interprets.
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Thunderheads are common in July.
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The Dinohyus was a scavenger, nicknamed "Terrible Pig"
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This buckskin shirt decorated with quills was worn by Red Cloud.
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