Dragon teeth

a novel

Paperback, 295 pages

English language

Published 2017 by Harper, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

ISBN:
978-0-00-817306-7
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OCLC Number:
973413865

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Archaeological expeditions
  • Collection and preservation
  • Fossils
  • Dinosaurs
  • Paleontologists
  • History
  • Fiction

Places

  • West (U.S.)