Thof's Dragon
19th Century
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56m
Post Civil War soldiers find themselves on the High Plains in the midst of the Plains Indian Wars -- isolated, bored, often drunk. Curiosity overwhelms fear, however, when the post surgeon discovers the fossil of a prehistoric marine reptile.
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