"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world"--Dust jacket flap.
Record details
ISBN:9780425289846 (hardcover)
ISBN:0425289842
Physical Description:print 151 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher:New York, New York :Viking,2019.
Copyright:℗♭2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The prodigy -- The professor -- A theft -- An "abominable volume" and a hat full of bones -- A mistake -- This country of big things -- Hi toned for a bone sharp -- Hydra-headed -- Wariness and controversy -- Another name for truth -- Obedient servants -- Scientific smackdown.
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