Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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My special guest is best-selling author Dan Flores who returns to the show to discuss his book about the war between coyotes and humans in America. Get his book Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History on Amazon.

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, coyotes have won hands down.

Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism.

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

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0:00.0	Hi there. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey today. I'm your host
0:08.4	K-Town and you're listening to mysterious radio. Legends don't come close to
0:15.1	capturing the incredible story of the coyote in the face of centuries of campaigns
0:22.3	of annihilation, employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics. Coyotes
0:30.7	didn't just survive. They thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to
0:38.5	New York City and Maine and beyond. My special guest tonight is best-selling
0:45.4	author and researcher Dan Flores. And he's here to discuss his book called
0:51.7	Coyote America, a natural and supernatural history. Dan says in the war
0:59.3	between humans and coyotes, coyotes have one hands down. Coyote America is the
1:07.3	illuminating 5 million year biography of this extraordinary animal from
1:13.8	its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epochs of our time and you
1:21.8	can get Dan's book Coyote America, a natural and supernatural history right
1:28.6	now on Amazon. In E-Tex book, audiobook, hardcover, paperback, and audio CD. And
1:37.3	now here's my special guest, Dan Flores.
2:07.3	I'm a writer just writing full-time these days, although I had a career as
2:15.8	university professor for 35 years. And the book we're going to talk about today
2:21.5	of course is Coyote America, a natural and supernatural history, which is a book
2:28.7	that I got out originally in 2016. It appeared in a new paperback and
2:35.5	Kindle Division in 2017. So it's about four years old now. And it's a book
2:41.6	that's had, as you know, quite a bit of success. It became a New York Times best
2:45.8	seller and it won or finished as a finalist for several major natural
2:53.4	history writing and science writing prizes. So it's been a book that had pretty
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