title: Dark Canyons: A Young Adult Western Novel of Loss and Discovery
author:  Bruce Blizard 
description: Bruce is a former high school English and history teacher and track and field coach living in the Inland Pacific Northwest. He taught Advance Placement World, English and American Literature, writing, and World and American History. Prior to becoming a teacher, Bruce worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for community newspapers in Washington State for 14 years. During that Time he covered everything from kids sports to presidential elections. He has been involved in rodeo as the vice president of the Benton County Junior Fair and Rodeo Association, as a journalist, and as a parent (his two daughters are accomplished rodeo cowgirls). Bruce and his wife, Tina, live on 25 dry and dusty acres in southeastern Washington with various dogs, cats, and horses.
zlib_text: **Tyrannosaur Canyon**
  
   **Book Jacket**
  
  SUMMARY:  
  A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-
  author of Brimstone and Relic.
  
  A moon rock missing for thirty years...Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found
  in a New Mexico canyon...A scientist with ambition enough to kill...A monk who
  will redeem the world...A dark agency with a deadly mission...The greatest
  scientific discovery of all time...What fire bolt from the galactic dark
  shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the
  southwest U.S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon? The stunning new novel from the
  acclaimed bestselling author, recently hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “better
  than Crichton.”
  
  > > > DOUGLAS PRESTON
  
  > TYRANNOSAUR CANYON
  
  > > For my son,
  
  > Isaac
  
    
  
  > PROLOGUE
  
    
    
  
  December 1972 Taurus-Littrow Valley Mare
  
  Serenitatis The Moon
  
    
    
  
  ON DECEMBER 11,1972, the last manned Apollo mission to the moon touched
  
  down at the Taurus-Littrow landing site, a spectac