Bone Wars

[Fennecfox]

Hi I was wondering what the best books would be about the Bone Wars? thx much Penny 

[zekky]

"The Life of a Fossil Hunter" autobiography of Charles Sternberg

[caldigger]

For clarification, the "Bone Wars" you are referring to is the race between Cope and Marsh as to which one could find and name the most dinosaurs, is this correct?

[Plax]

Check out "The Mosasaur" on the DVPS website. Am not sure there is a separate account of the bone wars but recall one of the historical papers referring to them.

[Parthicus]

I enjoyed the book "The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science" by Mark Jaffe.  It's available new (in paperback) from Amazon.  Looking it up on Amazon, I also received the suggestion of "The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age" by David Rains Wallace.  I haven't read Wallace's book, but it has a 4 star rating, so may also be worth checking out.  

[Fennecfox]

Thank guys I am going to look up these books.  While I am what is the best way to display a mammoth molar. I have one that is 12 pounds and I had a stand from something else but it fell over. It is rather a awkward thing to try to display. Here is a pic