The bone wars

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 Native Americans prepare to go to war against the US government.

subjects: Fiction,  Wars,  Indians of North America,  Juvenile fiction,  Paleontology,  New York Times reviewed,  Children's fiction,  Indians of north america, wars, fiction,  West (u.s.), fiction

People: Black Elk (1863-1950)

Places: Great Plains,  West (U.S.)