ISBN |
9780062473356 (hardback) |
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0062473352 (hardback) |
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0008173060 |
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9780008173067 |
Descript |
295 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, so he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. Soon William joins forces with Cope and stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. The struggle to protect this extraordinary treasure tests William's newfound resilience, and pits him against some of the West's most dangerous and notorious characters |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) |
Subject |
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 -- Fiction
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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 -- Fiction
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Paleontologists -- Fiction
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Archaeological expeditions -- Fiction
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Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction
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Dinosaurs -- Fiction
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Fossils -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Western stories
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Adventure stories
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction
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