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The bone wars

Kathryn Lasky

1988378 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1988
first published
  • 1988Morrow Junior Books · 378 pages · ENGISBN 9780688074333
  • 1989Puffin Books · 378 pages · ENGISBN 9780140341683

In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Native Americans prepare to go to war against the US government.

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