Re: dino localities in fiction

[James Tichgelaar <jtichgel@choctaw.astate.edu>]

Just west of Post, the rolling hills of east Texas suddenly rise several
hundred feet to the Llano Estacado, a large and boring elevated plain
which contains lots of oil, cotton, dust, cattle, prairie dogs, and the
worst drivers outside of Louisiana.  This area is full of rugged canyons
and defensible cliffs with elevated positions for artillery, forming a
good natural barrier.  C.W. Post used his own artillery here to attempt
cloud seeding with cannons before he gave up and moved the cereal
company to Battle Creek, Michigan.

chris brochu wrote:
> 
> This is perhaps only tangentially related to dinosaurs, but some of
> y'all might be interested.
> 
> ...and Texas.  The surprise here is that, in the latest volume, the
> front line passes through a little town in the Panhandle called Post.  I
> doubt Turtledove put it there because of the quarries producing
> Postosuchus and Protoavis, but I have to wonder.  I've seen famous
> paleontological locales in fiction before, but this is one of the more
> obscure ones.
> 
> chris
> 
> 
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