| Description |
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-347) and index. |
| Summary |
"Edward Drinker Cope was a Philadelphia Quaker from a wealthy family, an old-fashioned naturalist in the Jeffersonian tradition. Othniel Charles Marsh, a farm boy who had risen to a Yale professorship, was the model of a modern scientific entrepreneur. Opposites in personality and background as well as in political orientation and scientific beliefs, they fought over fossils as bitterly as other men fought over gold. With Indian wars swirling around them, they conducted their own personal warfare, staking out territories, employing scouts, troops, and spies. When James Gordon Bennett, the sociopathic publisher of the New York Herald, got wind of their feud, he stirred up an inferno that destroyed the lives of both men and scarred the reputations of many others, including John Wesley Powell, the director of the U.S. Geological Survey. In the aftermath, Powell's environmentally progressive ideas for limiting settlement of the West lost out to his opponents' laissez-faire boosterism, and the repercussions of the Bone War linger in many of the conflicts that rend the country today."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Assassination by Newspaper -- Prodigy and Heir -- Stepchild and Laggard -- Fair Prospects in Dirt -- Professor Marsh's Traveling Bone and Pony Show -- Lone Philadelphian -- Babel at Fort Bridger -- Marsh the Reformer -- Cope the Explorer -- Huxley Anoints Marsh -- Dinosaurs and Fate -- An Inside Job -- Slippery Slope -- Behind the Arras -- Cope Strikes -- Herald Steams Ahead -- Marsh Strikes Back -- Herald Steams Away -- Symmetries and Ironies -- Death -- Skeleton Drummer -- Epilogue: Squabblers on a Raft. |
| Subject |
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897.
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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897. |
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Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.
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Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899. |
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Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Paleontologists. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Fossils -- Collection and preservation. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wallace, David Rains, 1945- Bonehunters' revenge. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999 (OCoLC)607234392 |
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Online version: Wallace, David Rains, 1945- Bonehunters' revenge. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999 (OCoLC)608490038 |
| ISBN |
9780618082407 |
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0395850894 |
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9780395850893 |
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0618082409 |
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