Coyote America

A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote.

As soon as Americans - especially white Americans - began ranching and herding in the West, they began working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York's Central Park. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won hands down.

Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism.

An illuminating biography of this extraordinary animal, Coyote America isn't just the story of an animal's survival - it is one of the great epics of our time.

©2016 Dan Flores (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good book. It's exactly what you would expect.

I had heard of this book from Joe Rogan Podcast, and Steve Rinella's Meat Eater. The book was informative without being too dry and scholarly to digest. I truly recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Coyotes, hunting, and the origin of coyote folklore.

One of my all time favorite books!

This book opened my eyes so much. I grew up in Montana and always had a connection with these fascinating animals, even if my family thought of them as pest. I'm was so surprised to learn the interestinghistory to these noble creatures. The book is truly beautiful. The only downside of this book is my wife is sick of me talking about coyotes constantly. BUY THIS BOOK!

Good book

it was a good book. I'm looking forward to listening to American Serengeti next. I heard Dan Flores on Steven Rinella's podcast and checked out the book. It didn't disappoint

Amazing!!!

A must read...no matter how much you think you know about coyotes, or how much you (unjustly) fear or dislike them.

Great background about the coyote

Very informative and produced history of the coyote with a good performance by the reader, recommend if you are a fan of natural history