Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

261 Pages·2017·14.04 MB·English

by  Dan Flores

More Advance Praise for
COYOTE AMERICA
“In this brilliant book, Flores traces the wane and wax of the coyote. Their story
is interwoven with our story, but it is also like our story, that of a species that has
faced challenges and overcome them. Read this book if you want to understand
the wild canids among us and also, perhaps, a little bit more about yourself.”
—Rob Dunn, author of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
“A wily writer meets his natural subject. With erudition, pathos, and seductive
humor, Flores tells coyote stories that expose the animalism of Americans, and
humans everywhere. The pleasure of his book is the feeling of being alive.”
—Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise

ALSO BY DAN FLORES
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains Visions of the Big
Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West The
Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest
Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains Canyon
Visions: Photographs and Pastels of the Texas Plains
Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier
Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark: The Freeman and Custis Expedition
of 1806
The Mississippi Kite: Portrait of a Southern Hawk

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Designed by Trish Wilkinson
Set in 11.5-point Adobe Caslon Pro Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Flores,
Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948–, author.
Title: Coyote America: a natural and supernatural history / Dan Flores.
Description: New York: Basic Books, 2016. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015043370 (print) | LCCN 2016001156 (ebook) | ISBN 9780465098538 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Coyote—North America—History.
Classification: LCC QL737.C22 F63 2016 (print) | LCC QL737.C22 (ebook) | DDC 599.77/25—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043370
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Contents
INTRODUCTION American Avatar
CHAPTER 1 Old Man America
CHAPTER 2 Prairie Wolf
CHAPTER 3 A War on Wild Things
CHAPTER 4 The Archpredator of Our Time
CHAPTER 5 Morning in America
CHAPTER 6 Bright Lights, Big Cities
CHAPTER 7 Coyote America
EPILOGUE Coyote Consciousness
Selected Bibliography
Index