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100 1 _aCostello, F. H.
_q(Frederick Hankerson),
_d1851-1921
245 1 0 _aSure-dart
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-27
508 _aTom Trussel, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Sure-dart" by F. H. Costello is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a prehistoric adventure about a young hunter named Sure-dart, his friend Hop-foot, and their tribe, who struggle to survive amid dinosaurs and hostile neighbors in a primeval Colorado of steaming swamps and a vast inland sea. The story blends survival, tribal warfare, and monster hunting as the Rock-people face both colossal reptiles and a human enemy, the Fishers. The opening of Sure-dart sets the scene with a prefatory note explaining the liberties taken with science and a roster of the monstrous creatures to come. We meet Sure-dart and Hop-foot as they spy on a poisoned “death-beast,” glimpse a plesiosaur at the lake, and are chased to a “safety-hole,” where Sure-dart coolly uses poisoned darts to drive off a besieging dinosaur. Big-axe’s war party returns, rescues the boys, and the narrative shifts to the Rock-people’s cave life, weapons, and poisons, and their looming conflict with the stronger Fisher tribe. Forced to evacuate toward the hills, they are overtaken at the marsh; Big-axe leads a desperate stand on a narrow ridge, a giant turtle snatches a pursuer, and Sure-dart dashes to shield the fleeing women and children as brutal, close-quarters fighting claims lives, including the chief’s wife. The survivors break through, reach a small tree-island in the bog, and hastily fortify it, gathering for the next move. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago: A. C. McClurg, 1909
653 _aPrehistoric peoples -- Fiction
653 _aDinosaurs -- Fiction
700 1 _aEnright, Walter J.
_q(Walter Joseph),
_d1879-1969
856 4 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018354639
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78561
999 _c119279
_d119279