Dragon teeth : a novel /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Map on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 295 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295). |
| ISBN: | 9780062473356 0062473352 0008173060 9780008173067 |