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	Roy Chapman Andrews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884–March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History, primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia.
		Andrews was born on January 26, 1884, in Beloit, Wisconsin, at 419 St. Lawrence Avenue.
		From 1909 to 1910, Andrews sailed on the USS Albatross to the East Indies, collecting snakes and lizards and observing marine mammals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews (708 words)

	The Virtual Exploration Society - Roy Chapman Andrews
		Roy Chapman Andrews was born in Beloit, Wisconsin in 1884.
		Andrews took the job explaining that he wasn't interested in scrubbing just any floors "but museum floors were different." A humble beginning for a man destined to become one of the museum's most famous explorers and later the director of the museum himself.
		Andrews recounts that one time the expedition camped on a high promontory that jutted out into the desert "like the prow of an enormous ship." Fossils were abundant along the edges of the promontory and most members of the expedition had discovered something of interest by the end of the first day.
	www.unmuseum.org /andrews.htm (3396 words)

	Dictionary of Wisconsin History
		Andrews spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History, where he rose through the ranks from departmental assistant, to expedition organizer, to Museum director.
		Andrews was known for leading a series of expeditions through China in the early 20th Century, into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia.
		Andrews is said to have been one of the models for movie legend Indiana Jones.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=10457&search_term=andrews (391 words)

	BookRags: Roy Chapman Andrews Biography
		Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) was an American naturalist, explorer, and author whose popular image was that of a romantic explorer in Asia.
		Roy Chapman Andrews was born in Beloit, Wis., on Jan. 26, 1884.
		After 1915 Andrews concentrated on land explorations; his initial foray had been into the dense northern forests of Korea, but his dream was to test the theory of Henry Fairfield Osborn that central Asia was the home of primitive man and the source of much of the animal life of Europe and America.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roy-chapman-andrews (535 words)

	Extraordinary People: Roy Chapman Andrews
		In fact, Roy's discovery of the eggs settled a long-standing dispute among scientists: Dinosaurs were hatched, not born live.
		Roy, with his wide-brimmed hat and six-shooter strapped to his hip, narrowly escaped death at least 10 times.
		Roy is remembered not only for his courage, bold vision and countless discoveries, but also for his unique approach to field research.
	express.howstuffworks.com /ep-andrews.htm (934 words)

	Roy Chapman Andrews Society - Who was Roy Chapman Andrews?
		Roy Chapman Andrews gained national fame as an explorer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
		Andrews developed his skills as a naturalist and marksman during childhood rambles in the nearby woods, fields, and waterways.
		Andrews was forced to abandon field work in Asia after 1930, because of the region's political instability and the financial challenges of the Great Depression.
	www.roychapmanandrewssociety.org /who_was.html (461 words)

	Rocky Road: Roy Chapman Andrews
		Roy Chapman Andrews titled his autobiography Under a Lucky Star, and luck certainly played an important part in his life.
		Andrews was first and foremost an explorer, and nothing else satisfied him so well.
		In 1920, Andrews did lunch with his boss, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and proposed the American Museum of Natural History's most ambitious project: an exploration of the Gobi Desert.
	www.strangescience.net /andrews.htm (733 words)

	Dragon Hunter
		Andrews was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, on January 26, 1884, at approximately two o'clock in the morning.
		Andrews excelled in English, and intensifying his efforts even more, he was awarded the highest marks in literature and composition, along with frequent invitations to his English teacher's home for tea.
		Andrews exhibited his handiwork in stores, barbershops, and saloons; and his talents were solicited by family friends and schoolmates who brought him their dead pets to be mounted-everything from dogs, cats, and parrots to snakes, lizards, and turtles.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/g/gallenkamp-01dragon.html (3283 words)

	Dragon Hunter
		Andrews’ early determination to enter the scene of the American Natural History Museum (AMNH) in New York proved to be a cornerstone in his life.
		In 1922, Andrews and his team were the first one to challenge the Gobi Desert, at that time a vast blank spot on the Asiatic map, by combining several automobiles for the scientists, and a caravan of over a hundred camels to support his team.
		Andrews suffered partial loss of eyesight under the inexorable desert sun, shot himself in the leg, and amputated gangrene-infected limbs of Chinese country men.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/pe/2001_2/books/dragon.htm (788 words)

	Jack's Stack: March 2003
		Andrews and Osborn were both big thinkers with bountiful ambition and egos.
		In he wilderness areas bandits ran amok - Andrews and his associates were attacked by bandits and in at least one case they had to shoot the highwaymen in order to save their own lives.
		Andrews was on good terms with certain political powers in China but not others so when power shifted difficulties followed.
	drydredgers.org /jack0303.htm (1475 words)

	Beloit College Archives -- Archives Collections -- Beloit Alumni -- Roy Chapman Andrews
		Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, a Beloiter who gained world fame as an explorer, zoologist, naturalist and author, died of a heart attack Friday night in Carmel, Calif. He was 76.
		Dr. Andrews' first work was with whales, which he studied off the Pacific coast and in the Alaskan waters.
		Surviving Dr. Andrews are his second wife, the former Wilhelmenia Anderson Christmas, whom he married in 1935, and two sons by his first wife, George Borup and Roy Kevin Andrews.
	www.beloit.edu /~libhome/Archives/acoll/alum/andrews.html (531 words)

	Roy Chapman Andrews 1929 - 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andrews had allowed himself to become consumed by the needs of the expedition and had lost both emotional and physical contact with his family.
		Andrews returned to New York; and after more than 23 years of continual field work his exploring days were over.
		Andrews had contributed to exploring and filling in the last "unknown" corners of the globe, and he realised that exploration of the future would be very different from that of his own youth.
	www.whalescampsandtrails.com /1929.htm (725 words)

	Roy Chapman Andrews
		Roy Chapman Andrews is often called "the real life Indiana Jones."* His life as a paleontologist was filled with adventures in many localities.
		Andrews photographed, measured, and recorded observations about humpback, fin whales, and blue whales in the area.
		Andrews was interested in anthropology (the study of the origin of humans), and he felt that the Gobi Desert was the best place to find fossil evidence of the ancestors of humans.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/31591 (431 words)

	WAG: Charles Gallenkamp's Dragon Hunter & Peter Nichols's A Voyage for Madmen
		Like many scientists of his day, Andrews was interested in Asia's role in mammalian origin with emphasis on the search for a 'missing link' that would tie humans definitively to their forebears in Asia rather than Africa, but the expedition's actual discoveries were quite different.
		Thus, while Andrews undertook five expeditions between 1922 and 1930 with each lasting five months (Mongolia's harsh winters precluded year-round explorations), the explorations as measured in man-hours were indeed considerably richer.
		Surely, Andrews could have been cracked open by a diligent therapist willing to follow Andrews around and poke at him with probing questions (his fear of water is particularly tantalizing), but the chances of performing such maneuvers now, given Andrews's taciturn record, are slim.
	www.thewag.net /books/gallnich.htm (1014 words)

	A3 Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
		Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) is often called "the real life Indiana Jones."* His life as a paleontologist was filled with adventures in many localities.
		Andrews was born in Wisconsin on January 26th, 1884.He graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, and moved to New York City, where he took a job at the American Museum of Natural History as a sweeper.
		Many of Roy Chapman Andrews's books can still be found in used book stores, although they were the epitome of our understanding of paleontology and anthropology at the time of their publication, the information in them is fairly outdated, but they can make for an interesting read.
	www.erbzine.com /dan/a3.html (3474 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for andrews
		Andrews, Roy Chapman ANDREWS, ROY CHAPMAN [Andrews, Roy Chapman] 1884-1960, American naturalist and explorer, b.
		Andrews, Charles McLean ANDREWS, CHARLES MCLEAN [Andrews, Charles McLean] 1863-1943, American historian, b.
		Andrews, Lorrin ANDREWS, LORRIN [Andrews, Lorrin] 1795-1868, American missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=andrews (686 words)

	Amazon.com: Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions: Books: Charles Gallenkamp,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roy Chapman Andrews was never much of a scholar, and anyone who looked at his high school report card might have foretold an undistinguished future.
		Andrews began an autobiographical volume with a foreword that included the words, "I was born to be an explorer.
		Andrews had superb skills at planning and organizing his expeditions, but was he was a brilliant salesman, enlisting the financial aid of members of New York society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142000760?v=glance (2581 words)

	Beloit College Magazine: On the Trail of Roy Chapman Andrews, page 9
		Andrews, a scientist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was at the peak of his professional career.
		Andrews wrote extensively during his retirement, both for adults and for children, and he remained a popular figure until his death, at age 76, in 1960.
		Andrews came to mind during the 1990s as the possible subject of a children’s biography.
	www.beloit.edu /~belmag/spring01/html/RCA.html (678 words)

	Dino Land Book Reviews: Dragon Hunter
		Although Andrews wrote several autobiographies and his travels have been the subject of numerous articles, books, and movies (it is though he is the real-life model for Indiana Jones), this book by Charles Gallenkamp by far surpasses them all.
		Among Andrews' discoveries were some of the first complete dinosaur eggs, countless skeletons of Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus, the first record of Velociraptor, a plethora of mammals, and several invertebrate fossils.
		Roy Chapman Andrews is one of these men, and this book talks not only about his fossil discoveries, but his exciting life.
	www.geocities.com /stegob/dragonhunter.html (752 words)

	Ann Bausum -- Sample Programs for Author Visits: The Lucky Star of Roy Chapman Andrews
		Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) gained international fame as an explorer for the American Museum of Natural History of New York City.
		He is most remembered for the series of daring expeditions he led to the Gobi of Mongolia during the 1920s that recovered the first nests of dinosaur eggs, new species of dinosaurs, and rare fossilized mammals.
		His adventuresome lifestyle—conducted with the aid of his "lucky star"—reveals why Andrews is said to have served as the real-life inspiration for Hollywood's "Indiana Jones" character.
	www.annbausum.com /program_andrews.html (223 words)

	AllRefer.com - Roy Chapman Andrews (Paleontology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Roy Chapman Andrews 1884–1960, American naturalist and explorer, b.
		In the Gobi desert, he discovered some of the world's great fossil fields, which yielded the remains of many ancient animals (including Baluchitherium, the largest known land mammal), dinosaurs and their eggs, and plants previously unknown to science.
		Handsome and charismatic, Andrews was something of a celebrity, lecturing and becoming a radio personality.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AndrewsR.html (310 words)

	Roy Chapman Andrews Website Whales Camps And Trails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Organizer and leader of numerous expeditions on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History, New York; Roy Chapman Andrews, was a daring American explorer of the 1920s who is often identified as the model for the movie hero Indiana Jones, a rumor that co-creators Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have denied.
		Even as Indiana Jones may be an unintentional amalgam of real men like Roy Chapman Andrews, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, and Egyptologist Howard Carter, the three Indiana Jones movies undeniably follow in the tradition of "Adventure" movies popular in the 1930s; a genre inspired by the activities of these same explorers.
		Andrews led a remarkable life, a quintessential American success story, beginning his career at the American Museum of Natural History mopping floors, retiring 35 years later as its Director.
	www.whalescampsandtrails.com /index.html (426 words)

	History in Review - Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
		Andrews' discoveries where to influence the science of palenotology, and they were to help us better understand the science of evolution.
		Andrews was a daring explorer who willingly faced bandits, civil wars, and harsh living conditions which often included sandstorms.
		This growing political storm was to be one of the factors which prevented Andrews from returning to the Gobi after the conclusion of the 1930 expedition.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /HIRdragon.html (773 words)

	Ann Bausum -- Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs
		When Roy Chapman Andrews read these words from American Museum of Natural History president Henry Fairfield Osborn, he was being congratulated on his discovery of a new species of dinosaur.
		Andrews led five scientific expeditions to Mongolia's desert, the Gobi, from 1922 to 1930.
		Roy Chapman Andrews had a love of adventure that took him all over the globe.
	www.annbausum.com /dragon.html (773 words)

	Welcome to Nomadic Expeditions 1-800-998-6634
		It was surely with this thought in mind that the rather flamboyant Roy Chapman Andrews (who was said to later serve as the inspiration for the movie character Indiana Jones) set out in the early 1920s to explore the uncharted wilderness of the Gobi Desert.
		There appears to be medieval castles with spires and turrets, brick red in the evening light, colossal gateways, walls and ramparts.” It was here that Roy Chapman Andrews and his team made some of the most significant paleontological discoveries to date, including the first nest of dinosaur eggs the world had ever seen.
		Roy Chapman Andrews was an adventurer and wrote a number of books about his expeditions, many of which inspired us at Nomadic Expeditions who grew up dreaming of the great Gobi and its incredible dinosaur fossils.
	www.nomadicexpeditions.com /ad-activead.html (318 words)

	Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andrews has the strong belief that the human race originated in Asia instead of the more common belief of Africa.
		Andrews is able to find backing to fund trips of Asia and Mongolia to find proof to back up his belief.
		Some of the writing was a bit flat, and viewing Andrews through the eyes of what I know now and did not know then, Andrews' image has been sort of tarnished for me.
	www.domesticmuscle.com /books/isbn0142000760.html (490 words)

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