Nine Mile Quarry
About five miles southwest of Bone Cabin Quarry, a further quarry, called Nine Mile Quarry, was opened up in June 1899, near Nine Mile Crossing of the Little Medicine Creek. An incomplete Apatosaurus skeleton was recovered (at the time referred to as Brontosaurus.)
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