Title: Dragon Teeth
Description: 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.
Subjects: Archaeological expeditions, Collection and preservation, Fossils, Dinosaurs, Paleontologists, History, Fiction, Large type books, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, historical, general, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
Places: West (U.S.)
People: Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899), E. D. Cope (1840-1897)
Time periods: 1860-1890