A slow account of the history of the coyote and its persecution. This one reads as more of a history book than an examination of coyote behaviors, but both aspects are covered. The author’s writing style wasn’t necessarily accommodating. His linear account constantly zig-zagged in annoying fashion. The shocking thing I learned about was the U.S. Government’s long-term effort to fully eradicate coyotes through mass extinction efforts using strychnine, hunting programs, various trapping efforts and other poisoning campaigns. This was done over decades, mostly to appease agricultural constituents as well as to justify the continual existence of these government departments once they had fulfilled their original purpose—depletion of the gray wolf population.