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Barrow, Mark. Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Beeland, T. Delene. The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight to Save North America’s Other Wolf (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

Bekoff, Marc, ed. Coyotes: Biology, Behavior, and Management (Caldwell, NJ: Blackburn Press, 1978).

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Beuys, Joseph. “I Like America and America Likes Me,” performance art video, 1974, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5UXAqpSJDk.

Bird, Isabella. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975).

Blue Cloud, Peter. Elderberry Flute Song: Contemporary Coyote Tales (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2002 edition).

Breck, Stewart. Interview with the author, December 2014, disk copy in author’s possession.

Bright, William. A Coyote Reader (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication (New Haven,: Yale University Press, 1992).

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Clark, Ella. Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966).

Connolly, Guy. “The Effects of Control on Coyote Populations: Another Look,” Symposium ProceedingsCoyotes in the Southwest: A Compendium of Our Knowledge (Lincoln, NE: Wildlife Damage Management, 1995): 23–29.

Crabtree, Robert, and Jennifer Sheldon. “The Ecological Role of Coyotes on Yellowstone’s Northern Range,” Yellowstone Science 7 (Spring 1999): 15–23.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Dobie, J. Frank. The Voice of the Coyote (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961).

Dorsey, George. The Mythology of the Wichita (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).

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Dunlap, Thomas. Saving America’s Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850–1990 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).

———. “‘The Coyote Itself’: Ecologists and the Value of Predators, 1900–1972,” Environmental Review 7 (Spring, 1983): 54–70.

Erdoes, Richard, and Alfonso Ortiz, eds. American Indian Trickster Tales (New York: Penguin Books, 1998).

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Flippen, Bruce. Nixon and the Environment (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000).

Flores, Dan. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016).

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Frazier, Ian. “Coyote v. Acme,” The New Yorker, February 26, 1990.

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Gehrt, Stanley. Interview with the author, December 2014, disk copy in author’s possession.

———. Urban Coyote Ecology and Management: The Cook County, Illinois, Coyote Project (Columbus: Ohio State University Extension Service Bulletin 929, nd).

Gehrt, Stanley, Seth Riley, and Brian Cypher, eds. Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict, and Conservation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).

Gese, Eric. Interview with the author, November 2014, disk copy in author’s possession.

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Grimm, David. “In Dogs’ Play, Researchers See Honesty and Deceit, Perhaps Something Like Morality,” Washington Post, May 19, 2014.

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Jones, Karen. Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002).

Kitchell, Webster. God’s Dog: Conversations with Coyote (Boston: Skinner Books, 1991).

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Lopez, Barry. Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America (New York: Harper-Perennial, 2001).

Lummis, Charles. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992).

McIntyre, Rick. Interview with the author, September 2013, disk copy in author’s possession.

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Meachen, Julie, and Joshua Samuels. “Evolution of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Response to the Megafaunal Extinctions,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (March 2012): 4191–4196.

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Mills, Enos. Wild Life on the Rockies (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).

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———. Walker’s Mammals of the World (2 vols.; Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, sixth edition, 1999).

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Osburn, Katherine. “The Navajo at Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864–1868,” New Mexico Historical Review 60 (October 1985): 399–413.

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Pavlik, Steve. “Will Big Trotter Reclaim His Place? The Role of the Wolf in Navajo Tradition,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24 (Fall 2000): 1–19.

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Ryden, Hope. God’s Dog: Celebration of the North American Coyote (New York: Viking, 1979).

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Sandlos, John. “Savage Fields: Ideology and the War on the North American Coyote,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 9 (June 1998): 41–51.

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Smail, Daniel Lord. On Deep History and the Brain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Smith, Doug. Interview with the author, September 2013, disk copy in author’s possession.

———. “Ten Years of Yellowstone Wolves, 1995–2005,” Yellowstone Science 13 (Winter 2005): 7–33.

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Wayne, Robert. Interview with the author, September 2013, notes in author’s possession.

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