Dan Flores lectures on “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History”

Dan Flores lectures on “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History”

Dan Flores will present a lecture, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale. The lecture will be held March 22 at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

This talk traces the evolution of the coyote including the evolution of the Canidae family in North America five million years ago, being considered a deity by Native Americans for 10,000 years, appearing as a primary character in the oldest literature on the continent, and initial European and American encounters with the animal, which ended up launching a century-long attempted extermination campaign. The coyote not only survived it all but spread across the entire country, including into all its major cities.

A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History,” which was a finalist for the 2017 PEN America E. O. Wilson Prize in Literary Science Writing, and “American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains,” winner of the 2017 Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize.

The Canyon Community Center is located at 126 Lion Blvd. in Springdale.

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