Author Dan Flores visited West Texas A&M this week to discuss his forthcoming book, Coyote America, which will be published next year. Over 180 people packed into a room Tuesday night at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum to hear Flores talk about this beautiful and often misunderstood animal. Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Flores and WTAMU Western Studies professor Alex Hunt held a discussion on writing and publishing at the Cornette Library—another well-attended event. Following the afternoon discussion, Dr. Flores, Dr. Hunt, and a small assembly of WT students—as well as Hunt’s young boys—made the trek out to Palo Duro Canyon and spent the afternoon hiking. Flores, the author of a popular book about the region, Caprock Canyonlands, regaled the students with tales of the Battle of Palo Duro.
Flores, who retired last year, was most recently the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. He now resides in Santa Fe.