Tom Rea, who grew up in Pittsburgh admiring the dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, lives in Casper, Wyoming, with his family. Now a freelance writer, for a dozen years he covered politics, education, and science for the Casper Star-T
"""A lively, perceptive account of just how much more there was to the 'heroic age' of dinosaur hunting than simply finding and identifying bones. Anyone who wants to understand paleontology and the sensational present-day conflicts over fossil resources should read it."" --David Rains Wallace, author of The Bonehunter's Revenge ""Charming, and especially good in telling the story of the minutiae of the field work. . . . This is an area in the history of fossil extraction that has not been closely studied before, and Tom Rea's book is valuable for the presentation of local details from Wyoming that might pass another historian by."" --Times Literary Supplement"