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The Bone Wars and the U.S. Geological Survey
Nineteenth-century America—the setting of the Bone Wars—was all about expansion and discovery. Think: the Louisiana Purchase (a massive swath of land) and the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas (much larger than it is today) to the Union as its 28th state.
I first heard of Edward D. Cope and O.C. Marsh in a college Geology class. From that moment, their story captured me, even obsessed me. I knew it would be the subject of my first novel. My personal search for Cope and Marsh began in their old, but official, biographies.