Dragon teeth /
Michael Crichton.
- 295 pages ; 24 cm
Afterword by Sherri Crichton.
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils, while sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a privilege Yale student. Determined to win a bet against his arch-rival, 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, and abandons him in Cheyenne, 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, however, will test William's resilience and pit him against some of the West's most notorious characters ...."--
9780008173067 (hardback)
2017478490
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Fiction. Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Fiction.
Paleontologists--Fiction. English fiction--American authors--20th century. Archaeological expeditions--Fiction. Dinosaurs--Fiction. Fossils--Fiction