American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

by Nate Blakeslee

Rick’s dream, though he seldom described it as such, was to someday tell a story so good that the people who heard it simply wouldn’t want to kill wolves anymore.

The science was on Smith’s side, but it didn’t seem to matter to ranchers and hunters, or to state legislators. The debate wasn’t about science anymore, if indeed it ever had been.

Can a wolf in the wild experience what we know as joy and happiness?” Rick said, his voice breaking noticeably. “And my answer is yes.”

I can never understand the trophy hunter.

O-Six could still draw an audience, as good a reason as any to begin telling a story.