Lewis Lindsay Dyche

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

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