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How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Caroline Winterer - WH) trucker then you’re caught in theby Caroline Winterer How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves During the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts. T. rex and Brontosaurus ruled the continent. North America was home to saber toothed cats and woolly mammoths, great herds of camels and hippos, and sultry tropical forests now fossilized into massive coal