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Sep 24, 2017tirjan rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Been a long time since I've read a Crichton book and it'll be a lot longer before I do again. In fact Dragon Teeth was published posthumously in 2017 and Crichton had died in 2008 so it is hard to know how it would have turned out had he been involved in the actual final draft. But it's a fast read and informative about two late 19th century paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, is a mad dash to collect dinosaur bones in the Montana and Wyoming Territories before they'd be lost forever to settlement. At the time, the Territories were occupied by Indians who were very definitely hostile to whites outside of the few scattered US Army outposts in the vast area. This part of the story is probably quite accurate - except for some of the protagonists who have been added to move the novel along. And that part of the narrative is pretty good too in that it captures a very primitive and inconvenient survivalist existence for whites in Indian country, populated by not only by native tribes but also by ruthless highwaymen, con men and miners down on their luck.