The bonehunters' revenge : dinosaurs, greed, and the greatest scientific feud of the Gilded Age / David Rains Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, David Rains, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897.

Cope, E. D.

Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.

Marsh, Othniel Charles.

Paleontologists--United States--Biography.

Paleontologists.

United States.

Fossils--Collection and preservation--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Fossils.

Fossils--Collection and preservation.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Summary:

When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it's been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story of the conflict between two leading paleontologists of the Gilded Age remains a prophetic tale of the conquest of the West, as well as a watershed event in science.

Contents:

Prologue: Assassination by Newspaper 1

1 Prodigy and Heir 11

2 Stepchild and Laggard 23

3 Fair Prospects in Dirt 32

4 Professor Marsh's Traveling Bone and Pony Show 46

5 The Lone Philadelphian 67

6 Babel at Fort Bridger 77

7 Marsh the Reformer 92

8 Cope the Explorer 112

9 Huxley Anoints Marsh 131

10 Dinosaurs and Fate 143

11 An Inside Job 167

12 The Slippery Slope 178

13 Behind the Arras 192

14 Cope Strikes 209

15 The Herald Steams Ahead 226

16 Marsh Strikes Back 238

17 The Herald Steams Away 247

18 Symmetries and Ironies 255

19 Death 269

20 The Skeleton Drummer 287

Epilogue: Squabblers on a Raft 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [340]-347) and index.

ISBN:

0395850894

OCLC:

41368365