Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned American Original

by Dayton O. Hyde

Book Overview

The selections from Pliny, Virgil and Roman and Greek myth allow students to work with short extracts to practice thier skills in unprepared translation. Comprehension questions and passages translated into English help with understanding. Suitaable for GCSE and AS and A level students.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877957835
• ISBN13: 9780877957836
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Arbor House Publishing
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

We're all connected

If you've never read a "pet" book, thinking they're too sissy, read this one. But be prepared to choke up a bit. Coyotes are not your typical house pets and we're in their land, not the other way around. They fill a critical niche in the landscape. Don Hyde ran a coyote-friendly ranch and prospered for it. Its a great story and you will come away from it recognizing that we can indeed coexist with other predators. Warning: about half way through, you'll be tempted to cry and toss it. Don't!

Nature

I bought this book when learning about digging ponds. Ended up with the delight of an enjoyable read from an aware author, although i really learned nothing about ponds! It is a nature relationship read. Enjoy.

One of the best books I've ever read

Don Coyote is more than a book, and how Dayton Hyde became such a wonderful storyteller, we may never know. The symbiotic relationship between animals, nature and man is explained in such a loving, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic way, one cannot but treat this book with reverence. A highly entertaining, will make you cry, kind of read. Miki Cutler

Don Coyote

Dayton Hyde has a wonderful command of the English language and paints pictures with words so you can actually see whatever he writes about. The story was engaging, humorous, informative, and well-written. It is a story of his own struggle to be at one with nature and habitat. He taught his children this love. He was a good father and a good husband, and he maintains his sense of wonder throughout the whole book. He draws the reader into his thoughts and world. I loved the book. I have now read two that Dayton Hyde has written, and this was my favorite, but I loved both books. He is a man I truly admire. He is a good teacher. I read the books before giving them to my son for Christmas, and I want to give other people his book. He shares his life with several coyotes on his ranch and learns their ways and their habits. I learned a lot. Thanks, Dayton!!!

honest, strong and well written

Once in a great while an author tells a story that is both awe inspiring and down to earth at the same time. , Dayton O. Hyde, author of "Don Coyote" has compiled such a work. His tale is the great American novel that not only speaks, but also sings from the heart, Hyde's story is told from his own point of view, and is about his life as a struggling cattle rancher in Oregon and the amazing friends one can meet thru tolerance and understanding. His is a tale of the brilliance one gains when one stops and listens to his environment instead of destroying it. It teaches that one can live in harmony with all of its creatures. In Hyde's life he has experienced the hardship of honest work, the toils and troubles of dreams not working out, and the friendship of one extraordinary creature. When Don Coyote first came into Hyde's life he was but a nuisance, a so called "threat" to his cattle, a threat that by all of the old laws of the west needed to be poisoned and snuffed out of existence imeadetly. Hyde was a good rancher, a good husband to his wife and a good father to his children, an over all a good person. So when it came time to raise his rifle in Don's direction Hyde couldn't kill him, no matter the old myth that coyotes live to only kill sheep, and should be destroyed on sight .Hyde didn't know it then, but that simple decision to not take an "animal's" life would change his own forever. The New York Times Book Review says, "Mr. Hyde is an engaging writer, and he portrays his coyote characters as charming, quirky and almost irresistibly appealing. He also convincingly demonstrates the senselessness of those who kill the wildlife he loves." Experience the extraordinary true story of a man who decided to observe nature with not just his eyes but also his heart, therefore discovering that man is not the controller of his environment but very much controlled by it. Welcome one and all to a tale of true friendship andcamaraderie. "Don Coyote" was published by Ballantine Books and is available wherever Ballatine Books are sold. Also by Dayton O. Hyde: "The Major, The Poacher and The Wonderful One-Trout River," "One Summer In Montana" and "Thunder Down the Track."