Comments on: Riding With Rex http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/06/riding-with-rex/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Jerrold Alpern http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/06/riding-with-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-4405 Jerrold Alpern Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:55:31 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5789#comment-4405 Have you read the short story "Green Brother" by Howard Waldrop? http://books.google.com/books?id=lxPJL8lQeSUC&pg=PT110&lpg=PT110&dq=green+brother+howard+waldrop&source=bl&ots=9SSyhS6VgK&sig=VR4wAbHKy2JSuIrYQ2tGsM1Dty0&hl=en&ei=mAYFTqyDFsTv0gGo3Jj3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false It is a wonderful take on dinosaurs in the West in the 19th Century from a Native American point of view. The surprise ending is marvelous. Have you read the short story “Green Brother” by Howard Waldrop?

http://books.google.com/books?id=lxPJL8lQeSUC&pg=PT110&lpg=PT110&dq=green+brother+howard+waldrop&source=bl&ots=9SSyhS6VgK&sig=VR4wAbHKy2JSuIrYQ2tGsM1Dty0&hl=en&ei=mAYFTqyDFsTv0gGo3Jj3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

It is a wonderful take on dinosaurs in the West in the 19th Century from a Native American point of view. The surprise ending is marvelous.

]]> By: Dinosaur Tracking | Rex Riders http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/06/riding-with-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-4404 Dinosaur Tracking | Rex Riders Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:23:41 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5789#comment-4404 [...] SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE |   JUNE 24, 2011 …Zeke’s adventure, played out in three acts, is what you might get if you threw The Valley of Gwangi,The Lost World and One Million Years B.C. in a blender with just a dash of Cowboys & Aliens. Cowboys, dinosaurs, aliens and prehistoric people all have their own roles to play, starting with aTriceratops that rampages through the middle of town. Things get even stranger when Zeke stumbles across a small Tyrannosaurus outfitted with riding gear and the wounded, tough-skinned humanoid who controls the dinosaur, and this discovery draws Zeke, his family and his friends into a dangerous conflict between the inhabitants of a prehistoric world and the nefarious D’Allesandro. [...] [...] SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE |   JUNE 24, 2011 …Zeke’s adventure, played out in three acts, is what you might get if you threw The Valley of Gwangi,The Lost World and One Million Years B.C. in a blender with just a dash of Cowboys & Aliens. Cowboys, dinosaurs, aliens and prehistoric people all have their own roles to play, starting with aTriceratops that rampages through the middle of town. Things get even stranger when Zeke stumbles across a small Tyrannosaurus outfitted with riding gear and the wounded, tough-skinned humanoid who controls the dinosaur, and this discovery draws Zeke, his family and his friends into a dangerous conflict between the inhabitants of a prehistoric world and the nefarious D’Allesandro. [...]

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