Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

by Dan Flores, 2017. Paperback, 288 pages.

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States
 
Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.

About the Author

Dan Flores is writer and former professor, born and raised in Louisiana but a resident of the American West – West Texas, Montana, now the Santa Fe area of Northern New Mexico – for more than 35 years. He was A.B. Hammond Professor of the History of the American West at University of Montana in Missoula. A writing career that has so far produced ten books, Dan's focus has been nature writing and the “biographies” of animals like bison, wolves, wild horses, and especially the epic story of North America’s fascinating and now most widespread small wolf, the coyote.