Charles's sons George, Charles M., and Levi did not attend college (Charles later received honorary degrees from the University of Alberta in Calgary and Carleton University), but were educated in the field. All three sons joined Charles in the company business: in the field in his fossil hunting excursions, fossil preparation in the family workshop in Kansas, and in constructing fossil mounts for museums. George later went to work for Barnum Brown, searching for dinosaurs for the American Museum of Natural History. Charles went to work for the Geological Survey of Canada. Levi became a collector and preparatory for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The family business was dissolved in 1916.
A third generation of Sternberg fossil hunters began when George F.'s son Charles W. accompanied his father fossil hunting in Kansas at the age of sixteen. Charles W. is the most educated of the Sternbergs, attending the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, then earning a master's degree at the University of Chicago. Charles W. later became a geologist for the United Nations, working in Israel and Turkey.
After the dissolution of the family business, Charles eventually moved to California. He later settled in Toronto with son Levi, and died in 1943, at the age of ninety-three. George became a prolific collector of fossils and publisher of scientific papers. George went to work as curator for Kansas State Teachers College at Hays, Kansas (now Fort Hays State University), with the purpose of building a museum, the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. George died in 1969, at the age of eighty-six.
Rogers is a journalist (and journalism professor), not a scientist. "This is primarily a story of the men and their lives, not a scientific study," writes Rogers. Thus, the book does not discuss the science behind the paleontological work done by the Sternbergs in great depth. The fossils found by the Sternbergs are described briefly, if at all, and there is very little discussion of geology or biology. I felt that this did not detract from the premise of the book, however, which was to recall the lives of a family who were very influential to the science of paleontology.
