Our collection includes Walter Granger's original--and the only--firsthand daily account of the 1907 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) expedition to the Faiyum of Egypt. This was America's first fossil-hunting expedition overseas and it was officially endorsed by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt:

The collection also contains Walter and Anna Grangers' private diaries and letters from the famous Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) to China, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert.

In this 1930 photograph from their Central Asiatic Expeditions' Peking Headquarters, Walter Granger (r.) and Albert "Bill" Thomson (l.) display a Platybelodon jaw from the Gobi.

Walter Granger was one of the finest collectors and students of dinosaur and mammal fossils who ever lived. He was a key participant in the development of vertebrate paleontology internationally and a primary force in the growth, success and fame of the American Museum of Natural History. His work continues to play a significant role in the study of paleontology and evolution more than fifty years after his death. His name still resonates among paleontologists today.

Despite Granger's great talent and impact however, little is known publicly of his pivotal role at the AMNH and in paleontology. He led two of America's most significant and pioneering overseas fossil-hunts and collected from sites all over the American West. Many aspects of Granger's contributions to paleontology and paleoanthropology are often omitted or incorrectly recounted today.

We are preparing works for print, but will occasionally publish Granger diary, photograph, and letter excerpts as well as some of our research findings at The Granger Report which is revised quarterly.