NRHP: Harold J. Cook Homestead Cabin
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Harold J. Cook Homestead Cabin (Bone Cabin Complex)
NRHP Reference #: 77000156
NRHP Listing Date: 19770824
Location
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska
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Summary
The Harold J. Cook Homestead is within the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Sioux County, Nebraska. Harold J. Cook was a rancher, paleontologist, and son of James H. Cook, the famed frontiersman and Indian advocate. The complex, which at one time included a cabin, cook shack, and barns, served as a base operation for the Cook family and other paleontologists who excavated at the Agate Springs Fossil Quarries. The fossil deposits are of international scientific importance in revealing the paleontological story of the "Age of Mammals."
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