Two Toes: The Coyote Legend of Green River

Two Toes is the tale of a wily coyote that was widely pursued by trappers in the sheep country of north-eastern Utah in the early 1940s. The story is actually a fictionalized account of real events in which the author, Preston Q. Hale, played a key role. It vividly depicts life in Utah's sheep country-the ridges and benches of the Uintah Basin through which flows the Green River. The book explores the mystique of the often maligned coyote, making no hero of it, but also showing it to be an animal of great intelligence, a stealthy hunter, dedicated to its mate and pups.