My Life with Wolves

How I Became the Storyteller for the Yellowstone Packs

By: Rick McIntyre

Narrated by: Ryan Shaefer

America’s most beloved wolf historian shares his long-awaited biography—a story filled with true grit, laughter, and love for America’s National Parks.

In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.

McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territory—only to be surprised by their benevolent actions.

Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humans—even once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.

This book chronicles Rick’s journey, explains his values, and brings listeners up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Rick’s calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humor—like the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an … Arctic ground squirrel.

©2026 Rick McIntyre (P)2026 Blackstone Publishing

Great wolf stories

No one has dedicated more time and effort to studying and sharing the stories of wild wolves than Rick McIntyre. Hunters and ranchers will spread all kinds of nonsense about they being the only ones who really know wolves. But their adversarial attitudes only blind them from the kind of deep understanding possible when we watch them with the intention of understanding. Rick is the master of this. Having sat with him for many hours watching, I can personally attest to his dedication.

Stories Change Hearts !!!

I love how Rick McIntyre loved his job...
how kind and gentle he is and how much he loves all animals, especially wolves...as his stories of wolves help others quit hating wolves and leads many to finally understand wolves!!!