Coyote: An American Original

This ‘Western’ animal confused Lewis and Clark when they ‘discovered’ it in 1804 and called it the prairie wolf—but the coyote has been around for ages and roams nationwide. Autumn 1804 looms large in the natural history of the American West and, indeed, in the history of Western science. While as- cending the Missouri River …

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