Crichton, Michael,  1942-2008 <br/><br/>
Dragon teeth / 
Michael Crichton. 
 - 295 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Afterword by Sherri Crichton. 
<br/><br/> "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 ...."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780008173067 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017478490 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 --Fiction.<br/>Cope, E. D. 1840-1897 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Paleontologists--Fiction.<br/>English fiction--American authors--20th century.<br/>Archaeological expeditions--Fiction.<br/>Dinosaurs--Fiction.<br/>Fossils--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3553.R48  / D73 2017