



Uncommonly powerful, with gray fur and faint black ovals around each eye, O-Six is a kind and merciful leader, a fiercely intelligent fighter, and a doting mother. With novelistic detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic alpha female named for the year of her birth. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.īefore men ruled the earth, there were wolves. American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
