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02564aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DA0F9D06CFC511E59B6F8479DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160210011257 007 n 008 150706s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2015026162 020 $a 1410483681 (softcover) 020 $a 9781410483683 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)913470040 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Hirt, Douglas. 245 10 $a Bone digger $h [PB] / $c by Douglas Hirt. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Wheeler Publishing, $c 2015. 300 $a 233 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a Eons past an ancient creature the size of a bunk house lived out a solitary life and died all alone in a rugged prehistoric canyon. Millennia later that canyon would occupy an isolated corner of C. L. McSween's Rocking S Ranch. It might have gone on for millennia future untouched if not for McSween's plan to dam the canyon up to provide water for his cattle. Paleontology is a brand new science in 1877 and when Samuel Cobsworth a paleontologist from back east discovers the cache of bones from this long-dead Jurassic monster he considers them a priceless treasure trove. C. L. McSween and his daughter Libby don't see it that way. They're concerned only about ensuring their cattle's survival during the next drought. On top of that McSween is a superstitious ex-mountain man. He considers the bone digger a grave robber and wants him off his ranch! To Chad Larimer foreman of the Rocking S Ranch Cobsworth's discovery is nothing more than a bunch of old cow bones until strangers from back east show up desperate to get their hands on them. Among the Easterners is the infamous paleontologist Professor O. C. Marsh. Marsh wants the bones for his museum and is prepared to have them at any cost. He's brought hired guns with him and whoever gets between him and those bones is going to die. Unfortunately Chad is the man in the middle. 541 $d 20151123. 650 0 $a Ranches $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Fossils $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Paleontologists $v Fiction. 651 7 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Western stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 4 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20210924014053.0 952 $l LBPB837 $d 20200211012657.0 952 $l NUPD663 $d 20180712052806.0 952 $l DAPG173 $d 20170815011522.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA0F9D06CFC511E59B6F8479DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search