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The enthralling storyline of the go up and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who adored or feared her. Before men ruled the planet earth, there were wolves. Once loaded in North America, these majestic animals were hunted to close extinction in the low 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent generations, conservationists have helped bring wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a fight over the spirit of the West. With novelistic depth, Nate Blakeslee explains to the gripping storyline of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic alpha woman named for the entire year of her delivery. Uncommonly powerful, with gray hair and faint dark-colored ovals around each eyesight, O-Six is a sort and merciful innovator, a fiercely sensible fighter, and a doting mom. She is beloved by wolf watchers, specifically renowned naturalist Rick McIntyre, and becomes something of any social media star, with followers around the world. But as she raises her pups and defends her pack, O-Six is challenged on all fronts: by hunters who contend with wolves for the elk they both prize; by cattle ranchers who are burning off livestock and have the ears of politicians; and by other Yellowstone wolves who are vying for control of the park's stunningly beautiful Lamar Valley. These causes collide in North american Wolf, a riveting multigenerational saga of hardship and triumph that explains to a larger storyline about the ongoing cultural clash in the West - between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to repairing one of the country's most iconic panoramas.
