Tooth & claw : the dinosaur wars
Noyes, Deborah,
Tooth & claw : the dinosaur wars Tooth and claw Dinosaur wars - 151 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index.
The prodigy -- The professor -- A theft -- An "abominable volume" and a hat full of bones -- A mistake -- This country of big things -- Hi toned for a bone sharp -- Hydra-headed -- Wariness and controversy -- Another name for truth -- Obediant servants -- Scientific smackdown.
"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world"--Dust jacket flap.
9780425289846 0425289842
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Juvenile literature.
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Juvenile literature.
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
Paleontology--History--United States--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Paleontology--Juvenile literature.
Paleontology--History--19th century
Paleontology
Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.
QE714.5 / .N69 2019
560
Tooth & claw : the dinosaur wars Tooth and claw Dinosaur wars - 151 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index.
The prodigy -- The professor -- A theft -- An "abominable volume" and a hat full of bones -- A mistake -- This country of big things -- Hi toned for a bone sharp -- Hydra-headed -- Wariness and controversy -- Another name for truth -- Obediant servants -- Scientific smackdown.
"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world"--Dust jacket flap.
9780425289846 0425289842
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Juvenile literature.
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Juvenile literature.
Cope, E. D. 1840-1897
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
Paleontology--History--United States--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Paleontology--Juvenile literature.
Paleontology--History--19th century
Paleontology
Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.
QE714.5 / .N69 2019
560