Edition |
First HarperLuxe edition. |
Description |
378 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Physical Medium |
large print rda. |
Note |
"Larger print"--Page 4 of cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-378) |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 -- Fiction.
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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 -- Fiction.
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Paleontologists -- Fiction.
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Archaeological expeditions -- Fiction.
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Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction.
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Dinosaurs -- Fiction.
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Fossils -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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Adventure fiction.
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Western stories.
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Historical fiction.
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ISBN |
9780062674210 (pbk. : lg. print) |
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0062674218 (pbk. : lg. print) |
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