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Sticks 'n' stones 'n' dinosaur bones: being a whimsical take on a (pre)historical event / written by Ted Enik ; illustrated by G.F. Newland.

ISBN: 9780764353949
ISBN: 0764353942
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., [2017]
Copyright: &copy;2017

Enik, Ted, (author.). Newland, G. F., (illustrator).

Summary:

The first book in the Unhinged History series is a ripping yarn-full of adventure and deceit-that brings to life the best-known public spat in all of paleontology: the bitter rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. This frenzy of discovery and one-upmanship-known today as the Bone Wars-was a gold rush-like scramble to find the most and "best" dinosaur fossils, thus bringing to glory to their respective home-base universities. Lively and witty rhymes plus wonderfully demented illustrations reveal how the paleontologists' infamous rivalry began, and how-despite making genuine and lasting contributions to the field-their mutual obsession with outdoing one another spun out of control.