Person
Walter Granger
Roy Chapman Andrews wrote about Walter Granger in two books. Here is what each book says, with excerpts.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
Walter Granger, the expedition's chief palaeontologist and second-in-command — a veteran American Museum fossil hunter who directed the digging at Iren Dabasu, the Flaming Cliffs, and the other great Gobi quarries.
While dinner was being cooked, Granger wandered off along the gray-white outcrop that lay like a recumbent reptile west of camp.…Listen from here · chapter 19, 5:31My journal goes on to say: "The parts Granger had discovered were the end of the humerus, or upper fore-leg bone, and the whole side of…Listen from here · chapter 19, 17:33 - 1922–1925
On the Trail of Ancient ManRoy Chapman Andrews
Walter Granger, the expedition's chief palaeontologist and second-in-command. A veteran American Museum fossil hunter, he directed the digging at Iren Dabasu, the Flaming Cliffs, and the other great Gobi quarries.
…I should have hesitated to ask a man less cool and determined than Granger to visit so disturbed a region as the Yangtse Valley on his first trip into the interior…Listen from here · chapter 4, 8:20…and Shackelford remained at the Flaming Cliffs hunting fossils, Granger and Berkey, Lovell and I left for a week's exploration of the little known country beyond…Listen from here · chapter 20, 11:45
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