| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. By Jon T. Coleman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xvi, 270 pp. $28.00, isbn 0-300-10390-5.)
In Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, the historian Jon T. Coleman charts the discordant engagements between Homo sapiens and Canis lupus from colonial times to the present day. The title is entirely appropriate—"vicious" is a term that has been routinely hurled at wolves, and it also well describes the treatment meted out to wild canines by two-legged predators during this period.	1
Coleman came to study wolves, not through an epiphany in the wilds akin to Aldo Leopold's famous encounter in New Mexico, but rather at his desk, as he suddenly became aware of the surrounding faunal plenitude, from whale mugs to feline figurines (p. xiii). Scrutinizing colonial records as part of doctoral studies at Yale University, Coleman discovered a similar phenomenon. Wolves prowled everywhere, from stories of eerie howls in the woods to accounts of depredations and bounties.	. . .

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