The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars
ISBN-10
0688074332
ISBN-13
9780688074333
Series
The Bone Wars
Category
Juvenile Fiction / Westerns
Pages
378
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Author
Kathryn Lasky

Description

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 Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.

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