Lewis Lindsay Dyche Explained

Lewis Lindsay Dyche (March 20, 1857 – January 20, 1915) was a naturalist and also the creator of the Panorama of North American Plants and Animals, which was featured in the Kansas Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.^[1] His taxidermy work is housed at The University of Kansas' Natural History Museum in Lawrence, KS. Also at KU is the U.S. Army's lone survivor on the field of the Battle of Little Big Horn, a Horse, Comanche, which the Army asked Dyche to stuff for their display.^[2]

Dyche was born in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia (then in Virginia).^{[3] [4]}

He died in Topeka, Kansas on January 20, 1915.^[5]

Dyche gave his name to the Liberty ship SS Lewis L. Dyche

Bibliography

• Edwords, Clarence E. Camp-fires of a naturalist : the story of fourteen expeditions after North American mammals : from the field notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche. New York : Appleton, 1893.
• Sharp, William and Peggy Sullivan. The dashing Kansan : Lewis Lindsay Dyche : the amazing adventures of a nineteenth-century naturalist and explorer. Kansas City, Mo. : Harrow Books in association with the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas, c1990.

See also

• University of Kansas Natural History Museum

Notes and References

1. https://biodiversity.ku.edu/exhibits/the-panorama/
2. https://biodiversity.ku.edu/exhibits/comanche/
3. Book: Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. . Standard Publishing Company . Blackmar, Frank Wilson . 1912 . 556.
4. Wilson . Guy West . 1917 . LEWIS LINDSEY DYCHE . Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science . 28 . 355–362 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
5. News: Pref. Lewis Lindsay Dyche Died Yesterday in Topeka . . 1 . 1915-02-21 . 2020-03-03 . Newspapers.com.