Cowboys & Saurians: Ice Age by John LeMay
Trade paperback format. Pioneer life was tough. If your stagecoach wasn’t getting held up by outlaws, chances are you were suffering from dysentery along the Oregon Trail. If you weren’t toughing it through a drought, you might be enduring a hard freeze. And, if the wolves and the mountain lions didn’t get your livestock, chances are the Sabretoothed Tigers and Sarkastodons would. Wait, did you just say Sabre-toothed Tigers and Sarkastodons…as in prehistoric megafauna? That’s right, remnant dinosaurs weren’t the only cryptids that supposedly made it into the Nineteenth Century. Along with the surviving saurians came giant prehistoric armadillos, mastodons, cave bears, and a bevy of other prehistoric monsters. Pioneer newspapers were rife with reports of livestock being killed by mysterious, brutal beasts that defied description, and some of the creatures were simply too big to be anything living at that time. If anything, they sounded like holdovers from the last Ice Age... In the page