Written by well-known canyon country author F.A. Barnes, this book is based on his many years of exploring the wild backcountry of southeastern Utah and dealing with the scientists who specialize in geology, paleontology and ichnology, the study of petrified tracks.

The book was written for easy reading by non-scientists, yet contains a wealth of hard fact and useful information for both amateur and professional dinosaur track enthusiasts. Its contents include an introduction that discusses such matters as how petrified tracks were made and preserved, the immense numbers of tracks in Utah's canyon country, and what tracks can tell us. It has chapters on finding tracks on your own, collecting tracks for fun or science or both, track mysteries, and visiting some known track sites.

The book also has a generous section describing the author's own experiences over the last three decades ? finding and studying unusual track sites, dealing with track scientists, and summarizing the often complex, frustrating, ambiguous and even humorous results.

The book is profusely illustrated with photographs taken by the author over the last three decades, some of them historic in nature by now. The book's scientific authenticity is supported by an extensive list of references, an by the author's long personal association with several well-known scientists in the fields of geology, paleontology, and ichnology.

176 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. Illustrated.