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Shrewd, wily, solitary, and adaptable, the coyote had survived everything the West could throw at it until modern chemistry and federal policy combined to push it toward extinction. Their pelts were nailed to fence posts as trophies. Their deaths were subsidized by taxpayers. And almost no one was writing about it.
Originally published as Slaughter the Animals, Poison the Earth and now retitled The Last Coyote, this book was compared on publication to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the landmark work that launched the modern environmental movement.
Like Carson, Olsen documented not just the immediate cruelty but the cascading consequences: by destroying the predators that nature requires, man was poisoning his own heritage, degrading his own land, and eroding something essential in his own humanity.
More than fifty years later, the questions Olsen raised about the power of agricultural interests over public land, the complicity of government agencies, and the true cost of treating nature as an inconvenience have never been more relevant.
New York Times bestselling author Jack Olsen, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer called "an American treasure," brings precision, compassion, and righteous indignation to this environmental classic. Now featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson.
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Jack Olsen is the author of thirty-three books, published in fifteen countries. Olsen’s journalism earned the National Headliners Award, Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award, commendations from Columbia and Indiana Universities, the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Scripps-Howard Award as well as other honors. Olsen was described as “the dean of true crime authors” by the Washington Post and the New York Daily News and “the master of true crime” by the Detroit Free Press and Newsday. Publishers Weekly called him “the best true crime writer around.” His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses. In a page-one review, the New York Times described his work as “a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike.” Olsen is a two-time winner in the Best Fact Crime category of the Mystery Writer’s of America, Edgar award.
