Canaries on the Rim
Author: Chip Ward
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2001-05-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781859843215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
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Author: Chip Ward
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2001-05-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781859843215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
Author: Larry K. Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780931271700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoyotes & Canaries delves into the lives of some of the most intriguing historical figures in Wyomingindeed in all the West. Author Larry Brown introduces us to such characters as Lou Polk and Dell Burke, soiled doves who not only survived but prospered; Ella "Cattle Kate" Watson who, due to the greed of others, died at the end of a rope; writer Owen Wister; suffragette and historian Grace Raymond Hebard; artist Juan Menchaca; world champion saddle bronc rider Jackson Sundown; Wild West hero "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and many more. Includes chapters on 48 of Wyoming's most colorful and intriguing historic figures. Many photos.
Author: Linda Barnes
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1504014448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boston PI and part-time cabbie is out to stop a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants in this “chilling and charming tale” (Cosmopolitan). Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). Carlotta Carlyle has just returned home when a dead woman walks through her door. Manuela Estefan is breathing, walking, and talking—but according to the newspaper in her hand, she was just found savagely murdered in a marshy park not far from Fenway. The deceased woman was carrying Manuela’s ID card, and Manuela now begs Carlotta to get it back. Boston PIs aren’t supposed to touch murder cases, but when Carlotta comes back from the kitchen with a glass of water, Manuela has vanished, leaving five crisp hundreds on the table as a silent plea for help. But this is no ordinary murder case. The woman holding Manuela’s ID is only the first victim in what will prove to be a series of slayings carried out by a vicious maniac—someone who preys on Boston’s immigrant community, but who would not be above going after a tall, red-headed private eye. Coyote is the 3rd book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author: Larry K. Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780931271694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoyotes & Canaries delves into the lives of some of the most intriguing historical figures in Wyoming--indeed in all the West. Author Larry Brown introduces us to such characters as Lou Polk and Dell Burke, soiled doves who not only survived but prospered; Ella Cattle Kate Watson who, due to the greed of others, died at the end of a rope; writer Owen Wister; suffragette and historian Grace Raymond Hebard; artist Juan Menchaca; world champion saddle bronc rider Jackson Sundown; Wild West hero Buffalo Bill Cody, and many more. Includes chapters on 48 of Wyoming's most colorful and intriguing historic figures. Many photos.
Author: Gavin Van Horn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-10-05
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 022644161X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories of “how the paths of people and wildlife cross and merge and how, if we attend to each other’s needs, we may all enjoy a brighter urban future” (The Wall Street Journal). With The Way of Coyote, Gavin Van Horn reveals the stupendous diversity of species that can flourish in urban landscapes like Chicago. That isn’t to say city living is without its challenges. Chicago has been altered dramatically over a relatively short timespan—its soils covered by concrete, its wetlands drained and refilled, its river diverted and made to flow in the opposite direction. The stories in The Way of Coyote occasionally lament lost abundance, but they also point toward incredible adaptability and resilience, such as that displayed by beavers plying the waters of human-constructed canals or peregrine falcons raising their young atop towering skyscrapers. Van Horn populates his stories with a remarkable range of urban wildlife and probes the philosophical and religious dimensions of what it means to coexist, drawing frequently from the wisdom of three unconventional guides—wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu, and the North American trickster figure Coyote. Ultimately, Van Horn sees vast potential for a more vibrant collective of ecological citizens as we take our cues from landscapes past and present. Part urban nature travelogue, part philosophical reflection on the role wildlife can play in waking us to a shared sense of place and fate, The Way of Coyote is a deeply personal journey that questions how we might best reconcile our own needs with the needs of other creatures in our shared urban habitats.
Author: Jerry Wilson
Publisher: SDSHS Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0977795586
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Author: Jack Olsen
Publisher: Crime Rant Books
Published: 2020-06-17
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the extermination of the coyote – a shrewd wily, solitary scavenger – that serves as the central theme of Jack Olsen’s ragingly indignant, beautifully written and deeply moving book, perhaps the most gripping and important work of its kind. Poisoned, hunted, a bounty placed on their heads, their pelts nailed to fence posts, the coyotes symbolize the heartless and brutal way in which man has made the west his own as if nature had no place. Jack Olsen describes how, in the vast stretches of the America West, the wildlife is being systematically exterminated for the profit of ranchers and stockmen…with the cooperation of government agencies. Hardest hit of all the animals are the great predators – wildcats, wolves, bears, mountain lions, coyotes – all now on the verge of extinction. By decimating those species which seem to him inconvenient or wasteful or unprofitable, man has laid a waste his own heritage, sown the seeds of a poisoned earth, a dead land…and gone far along in the destruction of his own humanity.
Author: Carol Cartaino
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0897326946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoyotes hold a peculiar interest as both an enduring symbol of the wild and a powerful predator we are always anxious to avoid. This book examines the spread of coyotes across the country over the past century, and the storm of concern and controversy that has followed. Individual chapters cover the surprisingly complex question of how to identify a coyote, the real and imagined dangers they pose, their personality and lifestyle, and nondeadly ways of discouraging them.
Author: Edwin Daryl Michael
Publisher: Quarrier Press
Published: 2021-04-24
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781942294207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Coyotes of Canaan, we follow the daily lives of coyotes and coywolves from the Adirondack Mountains of New York to the unique ecosystems of Canaan Valley and the adjoining Dolly Sods Plateau in West Virginia. We experience the struggles, successes, and failures of an extended family of coyotes, and are rewarded with an in-depth view of the lives - and deaths - of these wild canids. Dr. Michael describes the daily and seasonal life history events that define a coyote, including its diet, hunting, killing, mating, travels, territories, reproduction, competition with other predators, and interactions with humans. Although coyotes were not present in West Virginia or the Central Appalachians prior to the 1900s, their adaptability insures they will become permanent residents that we must learn to live with.This historical novel might well have been titled, The Canids of Canaan, in that it details events involving not only coyotes, but also wolves, coywolves, coydogs, domestic dogs, bear hounds, bird dogs, and foxes. In addition to learning about the lives of wild canids, we gain an understanding of the complexities of the ecosystems of the Central Appalachians and the diversity of wildlife that exists throughout the region. We learn about the sordid role humans have played in attempting to eradicate the coyote, the most successful of all wild mammals in North America. We also gain glimpses of what the future could hold for these fascinating apex predators, which will play a vital role in maintaining balanced ecosystems throughout the 21st century.
Author: François Leydet
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780806121239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the interaction of two most successful large predatory species--the coyote and man.