Derr, Mark

Examines the relationship between humans and dogs in the history of America and how they were used as companions, hunters, and for protection, and profiles their arrival with Columbus, the English colonists reliance upon them, and their influence on the frontier.

Describes the early cooperative relationships between Ice Age humans and dogs as well as human society's later efforts to domesticate and control dog species through reproduction, revealing how dogs and humans impacted eath other's evolution.

Tells the evolutionary tale of how the wild wolf became the modern domesticated dog.