ShortHand: The Bone Wars

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Espionage, treachery, sabotage, pistols, explosives… if you thought the history of palaeontology was just dusting off dry old bones – think again.

This is the crazy true story of naturalists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, who sacrificed everything in order to become bone daddy number one.

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Sources:

‘The Gilded Dinosaur’, Mark Jaffe (ISBN: 9780609807057)

'The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age', David Rains Wallace
(ISBN: 9780618082407)

https://archive.org/details/gildeddinosaur00mark/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater

https://slate.com/business/2013/08/dinosaur-bone-wars-othniel-charles-marsh-edward-drinker-cope-and-their-forgotten-rival.html

http://oceansofkansas.com/NYHerald.html

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230119-the-dinosaur-feud-at-the-heart-of-palaeontology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02t674k

https://www.clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/the-most-osseous-war-in-u-s-history/

https://slate.com/business/2013/08/dinosaur-bone-wars-othniel-charles-marsh-edward-drinker-cope-and-their-forgotten-rival.html

http://oceansofkansas.com/NYHerald.html