Predatory Animal and Rodent Control (PARC), 124, 138, 156, 161
budget, 147
pressure on, 142
problem-solving abilities, 18
Progressive Era, 98
Project Coyote, 178–180, 182–185, 189
public domain policies, 89–90
public-lands system, 118
Grinnell, J., on, 120
Pueblo Gods and Myths (Tyler), 28
Pueblos, 44
coyote rock art, 50
Puff (gray wolf), 131
rabies, 191
Rabon, David, 224
Ragged Tail (gray wolf), 131
Rags (gray wolf), 113
Reagan, Ronald, 170–171
Red Mars (Robinson), 245
red wolf, 214, 219–220
captive breeding program, 222
Fish and Wildlife Service on extinction of, 222–223
genome of, 217–218
hybridization with coyotes, 214, 219–222, 224–225
Nowak on, 215, 221
range of, 216
recovery, 216–217
Wang on, 217
Wayne on, 214, 217–218, 226
See also Canis rufus; wolves
Red Wolf Recovery Program, 222, 224–225
Redington, Paul, 124
religions, 27, 42
See also Coyotism
Rick Creek coyote, 114
See also coyotes
Riley, Seth, 193
Robinson, Kim Stanley, 244–245
Rocky Mountain National Park, 148
Roosevelt, Teddy, 90–91, 118
Roughing It (Twain), 76–77, 117, 140, 151, 238
Russell, Osborne, 49, 139
Ruxton, George Frederick, 72
on coyote pelts, 85
on Indians and coyotes, 73
on mountain men name for coyotes, 73
Sabin, Edwin, 78
Salish, 25, 37
A Sand County Almanac (Leopold), 154–155, 165
Santa Fe National Forest, 94
sarcoptic mange, 205
among wolves in Yellowstone, 131
as coyote control in Glacier, 100
Montana introduction of, 88
Say, Thomas, 61, 65
on C. latrans, 58–60
on fission-fusion, 59
journal entries of, 59–60
trapping techniques of, 198
Woodhouse and, 66–68
Schlickeisen, Rodger, 179
science, federal policy and, 116
scientists, as public relations failures, 144
selfish gene hypothesis, 39
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 51, 92, 103, 116, 179
on coyotes, 104
sexual fitness, 39
sheep
coyotes and, 143
declining numbers of in America, 173
sheepmen
on coyote control, 102, 142–143
on coyotes, 87
Wildlife Services and, 173, 179
Shelford, Victor, 117
Sierra Club, 116
Silent Spring (Carson, R.), 156–159
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 236
Sitgreaves, Lorenzo, 66
Smail, Daniel Lord, 40
Smith, Doug, 133
accomplishments of, 126
on coyotes, 107, 126–128
Snyder, Gary, 235
on Coyote, 236
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 92, 192
sodium fluoroacetate, 156–157, 170
approval of, 145
ban on, 166
effectiveness of, 146
overreach of, 161
See also poison
Sonoran desert, 4
species cleansing, 115
species recognition, 225–226
sport hunting, 97–98
standard of living, 155
sterilization costs, 175–177
stockmen, 113
Storer, Tracy, on predators, 121–122
strychnine, 99, 145–146
availability of, 88
ban on, 166
effectiveness of, 85–86, 98
production of, 85
See also poison
synanthropic species, 193
Taylor, Edward, 135
Taylor Grazing Act, 135
Teller, Henry, 99
Tenochtitlan, 9–10
Ten-Year Bill, 109
Teton Game Reserve, 173
Texas land ownership history, 147–148
thallium sulfate
approval of, 145
ban on, 166
effects of, 146
time release action of, 145–146
See also poison
theory of mind, 91–93
Thoreau, Henry David, on nature, 115
Three-Toes (gray wolf), 113, 121
Tisdale, Arthur, 94–95
“Tito: The Story of the Coyote That Learned How” (Seton), 104
Toelken, Barre, 49
totem animals, 19
trappers, 113
Travels (Bartram), 214
Travels in the Interior of North America (Maximilian), 66
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 66
Trickster Makes This World (Hyde), 28
Twain, Mark, 20, 51, 117, 151, 238
on coyotes, 76–78
Tyler, Hamilton, 28
Udall, Stewart, 159–160, 162–163
Ultimate Cause god, 37
Unaweap (gray wolf), 113
United States Geological Survey, 90
urban coyotes, 13–14, 153, 227
in American cities, 10–11
in Arizona, 11
attitude changes toward, 201–202
Breck on, 203–204
car accident percentages, 195
cat-killer legend, 197–198
in Chicago, 194–195, 202
colonization mechanisms for, 191–193, 205
Davis on, 200–201
in Denver, 11, 203
diet of, 197–198
diseases of, 205
ecology, 2–3
Gehrt on, 2, 189, 194–195, 202
Hal (coyote), 12
hazing, 190
in Indian America, 10
individuality in, 194–195
urban coyotes
intelligence of, 195
in Los Angeles, 11, 192–193, 195, 198–201
in New York City, 11–13, 192
Otis (coyote), 11–12, 199
phenomenon of, 8–9
as population control, 198
pup survival rates, 197
as symbols of disorder, 199–200
territory establishment by, 195–196
tolerance of, 204
See also coyote
Van Valkenburgh, Blaire, 214
“The Varmint Question” (Leopold), 154
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Audubon), 75
The Voice of the Coyote (Dobie), 141
Walker’s Mammals of the World (Nowak), 216
Wang, Xiaoming, 30–31, 217
fossil interpretation by, 32
on red wolf, 217
Wasco, 25
Wayne, Robert, 214, 226
comparative genetic studies by, 217
on hybridization dating, 218–219
on wolf evolution, 225
Weckel, Mark, 12
Western coyote, 77
Whalen, Philip, 236
Whitehouse, Joseph, 55
Whitey (gray wolf), 113
Wichitas, 25
wild canines, 227
debates about, 213
eastward migration of, 219–220
humans and, 92
nuanced ideas about, 153
See also canines
wild creature appreciation, Yale poll on, 15–16
Wilderness Act, 162
Wilderness Society, 142
Wilson, Edward O., on human nature
, 38–39
Wilson, Paul, 225–226
“Winyan-shan Upside-Down” (Sioux), 42–44
Wisconsin Ice Age, 28, 48
The Wolf Hunter’s Guide (Corbin), 92
wolves
in Asia, 24
bounties on, 87–88, 96
coyotes and, 113–114, 126–130, 133–134, 215
extirpation of, 6, 36, 88, 101, 125, 127, 162
Fish and Wildlife taxonomy of, 216
genetic analysis of, 26–27
Goldman and, 123, 216
in 1920s, 114
observations of, 62
pursuit of, 114
sociality of, 36
Wayne on, 225
in Yellowstone National Park, 126–130
See also Canis rufus; Crystal Creek pack; Druid pack; gray wolves; Junction Butte wolf pack; Puff; Ragged Tail; red wolf
Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves (Bailey), 96
The Wolves of North America (Young, S., and Goldman), 118
Woodhouse, Samuel Washington
observations of, 66
on prairie wolf, 67
Say and, 66–68
Woodruff, Israel, 66
World War II (WWII)
advanced industrial societies after, 155
chemical knowledge following, 116, 146, 156
coyote control during, 145
DDT and, 158
Yanas, 45
Yellowstone Gray Wolf Restoration Project, 126
Yellowstone National Park, 99–100, 114, 125, 207, 213
coyotes in, 127–130, 139–140, 148
predator control in, 100
wolves in, 126–130
See also Lamar Valley
Yellowstone Wolf Project, 126
Yosemite National Park, 121
Young, Julie, 172–173, 226
on coyote control, 174–175
on individual variation, 177–178
Young, Stanley, 19, 118, 124
as coyote hunter, 99
on gray wolves, 216
success of, 99
Yukon River, 5
Zion National Park, 148