Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned America

Rancher Dayton Hyde was rattling along on his ancient Allis Chalmers tractor, wondering whether it would see its last mechanical gasp that morning, when he first spotted the coyote.

At first they were strangers,f though the coyote was always there, always some forty feet behind. Hyde couldn't kill him, even though his rancher neighbors believed the old myth that coyotes live only to kill sheep-and should be shot on sight.

But as hyde befriends the Don, as he calls him, and all the other coyotes that live on his Oregon land, he finds a different truth...

Here's a tale of nature in its purest form, a story of heartwarming friendship between an extraordinary coyote heartwarming friendship between an extraordinary coyote and a man whose wonderful observations bring home the powerful fact that a human being is responsible to the land-and not its master. "So joyously ornery, so damned funny, so compelling that it's tempting to try for a marathon start-to-finish read." Los Angeles Times Book Review