This heavily-researched historical fiction novel tells the tale of rival paleontologists who are both dangerously passionate about their work uncovering the fossils of dinosaurs in the American west. Student William Johnson, the purely fictional main character, spends time in both paleontology camps, starting out with Othniel Charles Marsh, who abandons him mid-trek under paranoid suspicion of him being a spy. William Johnson is left with no alternative but to join the expedition of Edwin Drinker Cope, who has plans to travel to dangerous areas in search of fossils not yet discovered, and barely believed to have been real creatures, in this modern age of 1876. This wild adventure that travels from the 'civilized' East Coast through Cheyenne, Wyoming, the wilds of Montana, the Badlands, and the historical gold mining town of Deadwood while featuring many historical people from that time was riveting. Dragon Teeth was written by Crichton in 1974 and published posthumously in...
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude, which suits... Abstruser musings ~Samuel Coleridge