Using 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 amazing survival story from the coyote. As soon as Americans-especially white Americans-began ranching and herding in the Western world, they began attempting to destroy the coyote. Despite promotions of annihilation utilizing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered about Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural Background epidemics, coyotes didn’t just survive, they thrived, expanding over the continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York’s Central Park. In the battle between human beings and coyotes, coyotes possess won hands-down.

Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both five-million-year-long biological tale of an animal that has been the “wolf” in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent place in Native American religions towards the hapless foil of the street Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is definitely a sort of Express Destiny backwards, with a pioneering hero whose profession stands up an uncanny mirror towards the successes and failures of American expansionism.

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

“A masterly synthesis of scientific study and personal observation.”-Wall Street Journal