Why did Bethanie love this book?
Coyote America tells the story of coyotes on this continent, including natural history, folklore, and current attitudes toward these incredible animals.
It speaks to the interconnectedness of all living things and evokes beautiful imagery, including a reminder that coyotes have been singing their songs here for thousands of years.
I grew up in an area without coyotes, and as a child, I pictured Wile E. when someone said coyote. I now live in a suburban landscape that we share with coyotes. I find them to be a beautiful reminder of the wildness around us. This book has helped me to appreciate them even more.
2 authors picked Coyote America as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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,…