McIntyre, Rick
Rick McIntyre was a ranger for 15 years in Denali National Park where he took hundreds of pictures of wolves in the wild. More recently he has worked as a ranger at Big Bend in the winter and Yellowstone in the summer. His other books include Grizzly Cub and The Society of Wolves.

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I gradually came to realize that the limping wolf had given me a gift. His gift was to teach me what it means to be a wolf. He showed me the full spectrum of the life of an alpha wolf by allowing me to watch as he hunted, played with his pups, disciplined a fellow pack member, and pursued a grizzly bear just for the fun of it. "The Gift of a Wolf," from The War Against the Wolf, 1994.

In many ways he reminded me of the great outlaw wolves of the Old West. The Custer Wolf, Rags the Digger, and Lobo, King of the Currumpaw, like the limping East Fork wolf, never gave up in their arena of battle. They mounted personal guerilla campaigns against the forces that had decimated their race. They served as champions of their kind and carried out an effective resistance until the moments of their deaths. Ibid.

This warrior spirit of the wolf was the reason the Wolf Nations survived all that our race did to it. They never quit or gave up. Ibid.

With my wolf books and lectures, I try to teach other people what wolves are like and why they deserve our respect. I explain the horrendous things our country has done to the Nation of Wolves and try to show why we should restore them to suitable portions of their former ranges. Ibid.