The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
- ISBN-10
- 0618082409
- ISBN-13
- 9780618082407
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- David Rains Wallace
Description
The colorful and tragic history of the two scientists who fought a blood feud in the American West over the discovery of the first dinosaur bones reveals evidence that their conflict a century ago still resonates in the region. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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