Teddy Roosevelt and the Lost World: A Tale of the Dinosaur Century

Teddy Roosevelt hunting Dinosaurs in Yellowstone...What more could you ask for?

How about famed Paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope and his daughter Julia as a romantic Interest?

The original concept for this novel wasn't much to write home bout: A Professor Challenger type expedition into the Lost World of the Yellowstone.

But as I did my research, I found a surprising depth to the character of Young Teddy Roosevelt. This is a man who, at 24, turned his back on his meteoric life after suffering an unspeakable tragedy. In the real world, Teddy discovered a side of himself in the Badlands that reinvigorated him and allowed him to remake himself into the hero we know today. I wanted to capture that moment in an adventure novel, but couldn't find the hook.

It wasn't until I discovered that Teddy himself lamented the fact that he missed the great opening of the West and was unable to see the vast herds of bison that once roamed there that I had my hook... Yellowstone wouldn't be a mysterious valley of mist, but, as it was already in our world, a preserve and snapshot of a time that was rapidly passing with the westward migration of America.

Add in the Bone Wars Between Cope and Marsh, two colorful and bitter rivals who nearly drove each other to extinction, and I have my story.

I hope you follow me, and can't wait to earn your support.