BOOKS & CULTURE // AMERICAN WOLF

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

Nate Blakeslee 

Publisher: Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY, 2017

Volume 7 // Issue 2 // Fall 2025 // Conservation

American Wolf is a book about colliding forces in the American West trying to determine who has the right to claim land and exist freely on it. The subjects here are the wolves reintroduced into Yellowstone Park decades after being hunted to near extinction. Playing the determining roles are biologists, trackers, tourists, ranchers, hunters, and politicians. Thanks to Blakeslee's (no relation to our editor) skilled and diplomatic writing, readers may find themselves considering right and wrong across a broad spectrum—a helpful exercise in current times. His foreboding prologue is a reminder and warning that, like all true tales of the natural world, this one may break your heart. // LEL

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