Status Updates From American Wolf: A True Story...

He’d made careful study of how the stories were crafted and methods used to inspire sympathy for a species that had been so widely despised for so long. He imagined turn-of-the-century readers, nestled in their cozy houses back east, following along as the West’s last remaining wolves, raptly turning the pages as the stories built toward their climatic final scenes. All of them rooting, just this once, for the wolf.

"There was a time, centuries ago, when that sound might have been heard almost anywhere in the northern hemisphere."

"Once found in virtually every habitat between the Arctic Circle and present-day Mexico City, gray wolves had been the target of a centuries-long campaign of trapping and poisoning—a war waged both for their valuable pelts and to protect livestock. They were all but eliminated by the 1920s across the vast majority of the Lower 48."