Dragon teeth
Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008,
Dragon teeth a novel / - 295 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295).
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.
9780062473356 0062473352 0008173060 9780008173067
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Fiction.
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Fiction.
Paleontologists--Fiction.
Archaeological expeditions--Fiction.
Fossils--Collection and preservation--Fiction.
Dinosaurs--Fiction.
Fossils--Fiction.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western stories.
Western stories.
Historical fiction.
PS
813
Dragon teeth a novel / - 295 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295).
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.
9780062473356 0062473352 0008173060 9780008173067
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Fiction.
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Fiction.
Paleontologists--Fiction.
Archaeological expeditions--Fiction.
Fossils--Collection and preservation--Fiction.
Dinosaurs--Fiction.
Fossils--Fiction.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western stories.
Western stories.
Historical fiction.
PS
813